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Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction
Edward Engelberg
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Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope. Selected novels are analyzed for the ambiguities that solitude injects into their meanings. The freedom of solitude also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek liberation. Although such ambiguities about solitude exist from the Bible and the Ancients through the centuries following, they change within the context of time. The story of solitude in the twentieth century moves ... Read more
In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope. Selected novels are analyzed for the ambiguities that solitude injects into their meanings. The freedom of solitude also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek liberation. Although such ambiguities about solitude exist from the Bible and the Ancients through the centuries following, they change within the context of time. The story of solitude in the twentieth century moves ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349632602
SKU
V9781349632602
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About Edward Engelberg
EDWARD ENGELBERG is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Aside from numerous essays and reviews, he is the author of The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats's Aesthethic (1964; revised second edition, 1988); The Symbolist Poem: The Development of the English Tradition (editor); The Unknown Distance: From Consciousness to Conscience, Goethe to Camus; and Elegiac Fictions: The ... Read more
Reviews for Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction
'Engleberg's argument is so clearly made and persuasive that one must ask...why no one has made and developed this point before.' - Choice