Prosaic desires: modernist knowledge, boredom, laughter, and anticipation

Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework it contends that human longings are as endless in...

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Main Author: Crangle, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2010
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework it contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
ISBN:9780748642861

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