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- catalog abstract ""In this study of solitude in modernist fiction, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, and how solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a topos. Selected novels are analyzed to highlight the ambiguities that solitude brings to their meanings. The freedom that solitude bestows also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek release. Although such ambiguities about solitude have existed since the time of the Bible and the ancients, they alter their shape within the context of time. The story of solitude in the twentieth century moves from the self's removal from society and retreat into nature to a condition external to society, where the self confronts itself with uncertain consequences. A chapter is devoted to a synoptic analysis of solitude in the West, with emphasis on the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and another chapter analyzes the ambiguities of solitude that set the stage for modernism: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Selected works by Woolf, Mann, Sartre, Camus, and Beckett illuminate particular modernist issues of solitude and how their authors sought to resolve them."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12192362.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In this study of solitude in modernist fiction, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, and how solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a topos. Selected novels are analyzed to highlight the ambiguities that solitude brings to their meanings. The freedom that solitude bestows also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek release. Although such ambiguities about solitude have existed since the time of the Bible and the ancients, they alter their shape within the context of time. The story of solitude in the twentieth century moves from the self's removal from society and retreat into nature to a condition external to society, where the self confronts itself with uncertain consequences. A chapter is devoted to a synoptic analysis of solitude in the West, with emphasis on the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and another chapter analyzes the ambiguities of solitude that set the stage for modernism: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Selected works by Woolf, Mann, Sartre, Camus, and Beckett illuminate particular modernist issues of solitude and how their authors sought to resolve them."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.[207]-216) and index.".
- catalog description "Self against self: toward ambiguous solitude in modernist fiction -- Discourse with oneself and the solitude of place: Robinson Crusoe -- "Soliloquy in solitude": To the lighthouse -- O altitudo! O solitudo! Exilic solitude and ambiguous ethics on The magic mountain -- Solitude of questionable freedom in Cartesian antagonists: Sartre and Camus -- As they lay dying "rotting with solitude": endgame in Beckett's trilogy.".
- catalog extent "223 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312239475".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog subject "809.3/009/04 21".
- catalog subject "Fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "PN56.S665 E54 2001".
- catalog subject "Solitude in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Self against self: toward ambiguous solitude in modernist fiction -- Discourse with oneself and the solitude of place: Robinson Crusoe -- "Soliloquy in solitude": To the lighthouse -- O altitudo! O solitudo! Exilic solitude and ambiguous ethics on The magic mountain -- Solitude of questionable freedom in Cartesian antagonists: Sartre and Camus -- As they lay dying "rotting with solitude": endgame in Beckett's trilogy.".
- catalog title "Solitude and its ambiguities in modernist fiction / Edward Engelberg.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".