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Modernism and Subjectivity - How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject (Hardcover)
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Modernism and Subjectivity - How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject (Hardcover)
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In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the
Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of
subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and
adjacent lateA -twentieth-A century intellectual traditions had
already been articulated in modernist fiction before 1945. Offering
a bold new genealogy for literary modernism, Meehan finds versions
of a postmodern subject embodied in works by authors who intently
undermine attempts to stabilize conceptions of identity and who
draw attention to the role of language in shaping conceptions of
the self. Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary
texts, Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward
subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology,
spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of
works published between 1904 and 1941, beginning with Joseph
Conrad's prescient portrait of the subject interpolated by ideology
and culminating with Samuel Beckett's categorical disavowal of the
subjective ""I."" Additional close readings of novels by F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Nathanael West, and
Virginia Woolf establish that modernist texts conceptualize
subjectivity as an ideological and linguistic construction that
reverberates across understandings of consciousness, race, place,
and identity. By reconsidering the movement's function and scope,
Modernism and Subjectivity charts how profoundly modernist
literature shaped the intellectual climate of the twentieth
century.
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