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The nets of modernism : Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud / Maud Ellmann.

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"One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technol...

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Main Author: Ellmann, Maud, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
James, Henry, > 1843-1916 > Criticism and interpretation.
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939 > Influence.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What hole?
  • The modernist rat
  • Strandentwining cables: Henry James's The Ambassadors
  • The Woolf woman
  • The darkened blind: Joyce, Gide, Larsen, and the modernist short story
  • The name and the scar: identity in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Skinscapes in Ulysses.

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