High modernism : aestheticism and performativity in literature of the 1920s /: aestheticism and performativity in literature of the 1920s. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joshua Kavaloski.
• Authors: Kavaloski, Joshua, 1968-
• Contents: Introduction: The problematics of high modernism -- The new critics and the social function of modern literature -- Literary theory's reception of high modernism -- Aesthetic performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss -- Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- The enactment of time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg -- Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Conclusion: The dialectic of high modernism -- Appendix: The early, high, and late phases of modernism.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (235 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.9112; Modernism (Literature); Aesthetics in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Aesthetics in literature; Modernism (Literature); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1571138870; 9781571138873
• Related ISBNs: 9781571139108; 1571139109
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.