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Author:   Michael Sayeau (Lecturer, Department of English, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9780199681259

ISBN 10:   0199681252
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   29 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter I. Introduction: In the Anteroom of the Event What is the Everyday? What is an Event Literature and the Event Anti-Evental Modernism The Emergence of Modernist Narrative Chapter II: 'The future was a dark corridor': Flaubert's Madame Bovary, The Everyday, and Style 'As though in a grip of a ghastly terror' A Book About Nothing, an Exercise in Style The Nouveau and the Genre Emma's Everyday Skipping: An Aesthetics of Uneventful Existence Homais's Cross of Honor: Flaubert and History Chapter III: The 'Odd Consequence' of Progress: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the Fin de Siecle Everyday The Catastrophic Status-Quo: Empire, Economics, and Sex at the End of the Nineteenth Century A Universal Tendency to Dissipation: Overproduction and Heat Death 'After the Battle Comes the Quiet': Wells's Ambivalent Modernity 'My Story Slips Away from Me': The Narrative Impulse vs. Social Stasis Everyday Apocalypse and the Morlocks ex Machina Chapter IV: 'His Occupation Would Be Gone': Unemployment and Time in Conrad's Heart of Darkness The Invention of Unemployment: Conrad's Careers Marlow's Discourse and the Temporality of Work The 'Helpers': The Belgian Congo, Forced Labor, and the Posthuman Conrad's Unemployment, the Narrative Event, and Modernism Chapter V: Joyce's Anti-Epiphanies: The Atomic Form of Fiction The Manuscript Epiphanies of 1900-1903 Dubliners: The Critique of Pure Epiphany Portrait and the Temporality of Impersonality Back to the Strand: 'Nausicaa' Modernism, the Everyday, and Auerbach's 'Very Simple Solution' Bibliography

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This intriguing, persuasive book raises the critical stakes for thinking about the everyday, going beyond, for instance, Liesl Olson's Modernism and the Ordinary6R; it offers new insight into development of modernist narrative, amply demonstrating modernist repurposing of plot even as it made new forms. J. M. Utell, Choice,

This intriguing, persuasive book raises the critical stakes for thinking about the everyday, going beyond, for instance, Liesl Olson's Modernism and the Ordinary; it offers new insight into development of modernist narrative, amply demonstrating modernist repurposing of plot even as it made new forms. J. M. Utell, Choice,

This intriguing, persuasive book raises the critical stakes for thinking about the everyday, going beyond, for instance, Liesl Olson's Modernism and the Ordinary; it offers new insight into the development of modernist narrative, amply demonstrating modernist repurposing of plot even as it made new forms. J. M. Utell, Choice

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Michael Sayeau is Lecturer of English at University College London.

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