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The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature: The Quest to Fail

Autor Jonathan Ullyot
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2015
Jonathan Ullyot's The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Ullyot argues that these texts serve as a continuation of the Grail legend inspired by medieval scholarship of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than adapt the story of the Grail, modernist writers intentionally failed to make the Grail myth cohere, thus critiquing the way a literary work establishes its authority by alluding to previous traditions. While the quest to fail is a modernist ethic often misconceived as a pessimistic response to the collapse of traditional humanism, the modernist writings of Eliot, Kafka, and Céline posit that the possibility of redemption presents itself only when hope has finally been abandoned.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107131484
ISBN-10: 1107131480
Pagini: 275
Ilustrații: 6 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. The Golden Bowl and the Holy Grail; 2. Jessie Weston and the mythical method of The Waste Land; 3. Kafka's Grail castle; 4. Céline's knight of the apocalypse; 5. Molloy or Le Conte du Graal.

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This book rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature.