Retracing the steps of a surprising array of twentieth-century
writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of
Lewis Carroll’s fictions and discovered there the quintessence of
their own modernity, this book demonstrates that Carroll’s
influence extended far beyond literary style. Chapters show how
Carroll’s writings had a far reaching impact on modern life, from
commercial culture to politics, from philosophy to the new physics.
Testing the authority of language and mediation through extensive
word-play and genre-bending, the Alice books undoubtedly prefigure
literary modernism at its upmost experimental. This book shows us
the Alice we recognize from Carroll’s novels but also the Alice
modernist writers encountered through the looking-glass of these
extraliterary discourses. Recovering a common touchstone between
the likes of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and writers
conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such
as Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov, this
volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly
conceptualised global modernism.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Historicizing Modernism |
| Release date: |
February 2024 |
| Editors: |
John D. Morgenstern
• Michelle Witen
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-24871-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-350-24871-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781350248717 |
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