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This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary
literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no
longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of
globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist
sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a
horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to
which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such
diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and
the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions
and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.
This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary
literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no
longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of
globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist
sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a
horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to
which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such
diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and
the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions
and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.
A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully
complete the process of maturation and socialization that
ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of
Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard
Feverel to the suicide of Balzac's Lucien de Rubempre and the
demise of Eliot's Maggie and Tom Tulliver, the nineteenth-century
bildungsroman offers narratives of failure, paralysis, and
destruction: goals cannot be achieved, identities are impossible to
forge, and the narrative of socialization routinely crumbles.
Examining the novels of Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Charles
Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, Samuel Butler, James Joyce,
and Marcel Proust, Falling Short reveals not only a crisis of
character development but also a crisis of plotting and narrative
structure. From the inception of literary realism in the 1830s to
the height of modernism a century later, the bildungsroman presents
itself as a key symptom of modern Europe's inability to envision
either coherent subjectivity or successful socialization. Rather
than articulating an arc of personal development, Stevic argues,
the bildungsroman tends to condemn its heroes to failure because
our modern understanding of both individual subjectivity and social
success remains riddled with contradictions. Placing primary texts
in conversation with the central historical debates of their time,
Falling Short offers a revisionist history of the realist and
modernist bildungsroman, unearthing the neglected role of defeat in
the history of the genre.
A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully
complete the process of maturation and socialization that
ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of
Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard
Feverel to the suicide of Balzac's Lucien de Rubempre and the
demise of Eliot's Maggie and Tom Tulliver, the nineteenth-century
bildungsroman offers narratives of failure, paralysis, and
destruction: goals cannot be achieved, identities are impossible to
forge, and the narrative of socialization routinely crumbles.
Examining the novels of Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Charles
Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, Samuel Butler, James Joyce,
and Marcel Proust, Falling Short reveals not only a crisis of
character development but also a crisis of plotting and narrative
structure. From the inception of literary realism in the 1830s to
the height of modernism a century later, the bildungsroman presents
itself as a key symptom of modern Europe's inability to envision
either coherent subjectivity or successful socialization. Rather
than articulating an arc of personal development, Stevic argues,
the bildungsroman tends to condemn its heroes to failure because
our modern understanding of both individual subjectivity and social
success remains riddled with contradictions. Placing primary texts
in conversation with the central historical debates of their time,
Falling Short offers a revisionist history of the realist and
modernist bildungsroman, unearthing the neglected role of defeat in
the history of the genre.
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