| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm). |
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text file |
| Series |
Literature now
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Literature now.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: unmaking love -- Lesbian fantasy: psychoanalysis, the legacy of modernist love, and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood -- The ends of love: amorous redemption, the passion for negativity, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi's intimacy -- Amorous time: nostalgia, temporality, and the pursuit of optimism in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- Cosmopolitan love: encountering difference in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled -- Conclusion: "any generic airport thriller": otherness, Cloud atlas, and contemporary literature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Love in literature.
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Love in literature. |
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Contemporary novel and the impossibility of union |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231178228 0231178220 (DLC) 2016024430 (OCoLC)950448261 |
| ISBN |
9780231543156 (electronic book) |
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0231543158 (electronic book) |
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9780231178228 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231178220 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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