The Evolutions of Modernist Epic (PDF)
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Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the early twentieth century. Reading a selection of works from the United States, England, Ireland,...
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Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the early twentieth century. Reading a selection of works from the United States, England, Ireland, Czechoslovakia, and Brazil, The Evolutions of Modernist Epic develops a comparative theory of this genre and its global development. That development was, it argues, bound up with new ideas about biological
evolution. During the first decades of the twentieth century-a period known, in the history of evolutionary science, as 'the eclipse of Darwinism'-evolution's significance was questioned, rethought, and ultimately confined to the Neo-Darwinist discourse with which we are familiar today. Epic fiction
participated in, and was shaped by, this shift.
Drawing on queer forms of sexuality to cultivate anti-heroic and non-progressive modes of telling national stories, the genre contested reductive and reactionary forms of social Darwinism. The book describes how, in doing so, the genre asks us to revisit our assumptions about ethnolinguistics and organic nationalism. It also models how the history of evolutionary thought can provide a new basis for comparing diverse modernisms and their peculiar nativisms.
evolution. During the first decades of the twentieth century-a period known, in the history of evolutionary science, as 'the eclipse of Darwinism'-evolution's significance was questioned, rethought, and ultimately confined to the Neo-Darwinist discourse with which we are familiar today. Epic fiction
participated in, and was shaped by, this shift.
Drawing on queer forms of sexuality to cultivate anti-heroic and non-progressive modes of telling national stories, the genre contested reductive and reactionary forms of social Darwinism. The book describes how, in doing so, the genre asks us to revisit our assumptions about ethnolinguistics and organic nationalism. It also models how the history of evolutionary thought can provide a new basis for comparing diverse modernisms and their peculiar nativisms.
Autoren-Porträt von Václav Paris
Václav Paris is an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York, where he teaches courses on Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Global Modernism. His research focuses on the intersections between science and modernist literature around the world. Dr Paris's work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/modernity, the James JoyceQuarterly, the Arizona Quarterly, and English Literature in Transition. Dr Paris is also a passionate student of languages and a translator. His translation of Zdenek Kratochvíl's The Philosophy of Living Nature, was published by Karolínum in November 2016.
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- Autor: Václav Paris
- 2021, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192638645
- ISBN-13: 9780192638649
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2021
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