Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
Published In
The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature
Abstract
This article examines the impact of modernism on philosophy and literature. It proposes two defining dimensions of modernist texts: their initial difficulty and their experimental departure from earlier conventions of thinking. It considers in some detail the practice of novelists Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and William Faulkner with the aim of shedding light on central strategies and powers of modernism. It shows that the formal practices of my novelists enact a philosophic stance through their particular way of deploying materials.
Keywords
modernism, philosophy, literature, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, philosophic stance, modernist fiction
Published By
Oxford University Press
Editor(s)
Richard Thomas Eldridge
Recommended Citation
Philip M. Weinstein.
(2009).
"Modernism".
The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature.
298-321.
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195182637.003.0014
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/231
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