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1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-247) and index. |
| Contents |
An unexpected beginning : sex, race, and history in T.S. Eliot's Columbo and Bolo poems -- Mixing memory and desire : rereading Eliot and the body of history -- Eliot, eros, and desire : "oh, do not ask, 'what is it?'" -- T.S. Eliot : writing time and blasting memory -- Virginia Woolf, (auto)biography, and the eros of memory : reading Orlando -- Other kinds of autobiographies : sketching the past, forgetting Freud, and reaching the lighthouse -- Remembering what has "almost already been forgotten" : where memory touches history. |
| Summary |
T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, are rarely paired. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality, and the body to render memory's processes. The book includes extensive archival research on some mostly unknown bawdy poetry by T.S. Eliot while offering readings of major work by both writers, including The Waste Land, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Orlando and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with several major modernist thinkers of memory, including Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, to offer compelling reconsiderations of the relation between textuality, remembrance and the body in modernist literature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature. |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McIntire, Gabrielle. Modernism, memory, and desire. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007032985 |
| ISBN |
0521877857 (Cloth) |
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9780521877855 (Cloth) |
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0511377746 (electronic book) |
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9780511377747 (electronic book) |
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9780511378638 (electronic book) |
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0511378637 (electronic book) |
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9780511485176 (ebook) |
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0511485174 (ebook) |
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9786611243173 |
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6611243178 |
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