Review of the hardback: 'Randall's book is distinguished by its very precise close readings of the fictional texts and the committed, sustained quality of its enquiry.' Rebecca Beasley, Textual Practice
Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and of everyday life through the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with a contextualising chapter on the psychologists William James and Henri Bergson. It goes on to devote chapters to Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Virginia Woolf. These experimental writers, she argues, reveal everyday life and daily time as rich and strange, not simply a banal backdrop to more important events. Moreover, Randall argues that paying attention to the everyday and daily time can be politically empowering and subversive. The specific social and cultural context of the early twentieth century is one in which the concept of daily time is particularly strongly challenged. By examining Modernism's engagement with or manifestation of this notion of daily time, she reveals a highly original perspective on their concerns and complexities.
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Introduction: Dailiness; 1. The contemporary context: Henri Bergson and William James; 2. Dailiness in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage; 3. Re-creation, work and the everyday in Gertrude Stein; 4. War-Days: H.D., time and World War One; 5. Reading, writing and thinking: a Woolfian daily life; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
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Review of the hardback: 'Randall's book is distinguished by its very precise close readings of the fictional texts and the committed, sustained quality of its enquiry.' Rebecca Beasley, Textual Practice
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An original exploration of modernist authors' fascination with the everyday.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780521879842
Publisert
2007-12-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
510 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232
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