Modernist Impersonalities

Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

Autorentext
Rochelle Rives is an Assistant Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Inhalt
Modernism and the 'Escape From Personality' 'The Dissociation of Personality:' Space and the Impersonal Ideal The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic Authority A 'Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy:' D.H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts, and the Impersonal Object A 'Solicitude for Things:' Elizabeth Bowen and the Bildungsroman Conclusion: Emotion after the Death of the Heart