Troubling late modernism ethics, feeling, and the novel form Battersby, Doug creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History enk 2022 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form charts how modernist techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires have been perversely reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period. Chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride reveal how these writers at once extend and exploit modernist forms of narration to cultivate disquieting affective attachments between readers and protagonists compelled by violent or exploitative sexual desires. By interrogating the expressive power and ethical liabilities of modes of writing that give us intimate access to characters' inner lives, late modernism poses fundamental philosophical questions about emotion and its inextricability from knowledge and ethical deliberation. Whilst other historians of the novel have characterized late modernism's formal innovations as ethically and politically edifying, Troubling Late Modernism highlights their more disquieting potential for lending sympathy and profundity to sentiments deemed inadmissible in our everyday lives. Charting late modernism's characteristic fusion of aesthetic difficulty and emotional and ethical provocation demands an approach attuned to the experience of reading these disturbingly erotic narratives. In dialogue with recent debates about critical method, Troubling Late Modernism presents a new way of closely reading prose fiction that brings together the lessons of formalism and affect theory. Introduction Modernist Liabilities -- 1 Vladimir Nabokov's Unbearable Intimacy -- 2 Samuel Beckett's Conflicted Feelings -- 3 Toni Morrison's Ethics of Attention -- 4 John Banville's Performance of Passion -- 5 J. M. Coetzee's Hidden Heart -- 6 Eimear McBride's Bodily Forms -- Conclusion specialized Doug Battersby. Includes bibliographical references and index. Fiction 20th century History and criticism Emotions in literature Modernism (Literature) History 20th century Ethics in literature Morale dans la littérature FICTION Mystery & Detective Emotions in literature Ethics in literature Fiction Modernism (Literature) Literature: history & criticism Literature 1900-1999 fast PN3503 .B38 2022 PR428.E85 809.3/04 820 Troubling late modernism Battersby, Doug. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022] (OCoLC)1344119906 9780192678058 0192678051 9780191954221 0191954225 9780192678065 019267806X 9780192863331 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/44631 UKAHL 220926 20260318164925.4 in00005697707 eng