{"product_id":"troubling-late-modernism-ethics-feeling-and-the-novel-form-9780192863331","title":"Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form","description":"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form--a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with today. \u003cem\u003eTroubling Late Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e tracks how those techniques have been perversely reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period. Chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride reveal how these writers at once exploit and extend modernist forms of narration to cultivate disquieting affective attachments to protagonists compelled by violent or exploitative sexual desires. By interrogating the expressive power and ethical liabilities of modes of writing that give us intimate access to characters' inner lives, late modernism poses fundamental philosophical questions about emotion and its inseparability from knowledge and ethical deliberation. Whilst other historians of the novel have characterized late modernism's formal innovations as ethically and politically edifying, \u003cem\u003eTroubling Late Modernism \u003c\/em\u003ehighlights their more disquieting potential for lending sympathy and profundity to sentiments deemed inadmissible in our everyday lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharting late modernism's characteristic fusion of aesthetic difficulty with emotional and ethical provocation demands an approach attuned to the experience of reading these disturbingly erotic narratives. In dialogue with recent debates about critical method, \u003cem\u003eTroubling Late Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e presents a new way of closely reading prose fiction that brings together the lessons of formalism and affect theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doug Battersby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192863331","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259411067017,"sku":"9780192863331","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_55743a06-d3d3-457f-9338-ae45cd64906d.jpg?v=1749543302","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/troubling-late-modernism-ethics-feeling-and-the-novel-form-9780192863331","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}