Unmaking love the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union

"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels" --

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1. Verfasser:	Shelden, Ashley T. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	UnknownFormat
Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York Columbia University Press 2017
Schriftenreihe:	Literature now
Schlagworte:	English fiction > History and criticism > Love in literature > Intimacy (Psychology) in literature > Modernism (Literature) > Englisch > Roman > Liebe > Geschichte 1990-2016
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Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels" -- 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
Beschreibung:	XI, 186 Seiten
ISBN:	9780231178228 978-0-231-17822-8 0231178220 0-231-17822-0