Spectrality in Modernist Fiction - Hardcover
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Spectrality in Modernist Fiction - Hardcover
$153.90
by Stephen Ross (Author)
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements. These engagements invariably come packaged in, and are shaped by, the language of spectrality. In its capacity to articulate a particular sort of relationship between the past, the present and the future, the spectral concerns the basic question of how to proceed, how to live with-maybe even address-ethical indeterminacy. Whether their spectral rhetoric traces the logics of capitalist possession (Conrad), queer "friendship" and paganized Christianity (Forster), regressive politics haunted by historical traumas (Butts), or the devious passages of perverse desire (Bowen), these writers locate something like hope in their ghosts. The ethical and political impasses they chart through their spectral rhetoric are not final, but temporary, and the drive to overcome them constitutes a tensile optimism.
Author Biography
Stephen Ross, Professor of English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought, University of Victoria
Stephen Ross is Professor of English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria. He has taught at the University of Victoria since 2001 and administered the graduate programmes in English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought from time to time as well. He is past president of the Modernist Studies Association and most recently winner of a national award for Graduate Student Mentoring and Supervision.
Number of Pages: 206
Dimensions: 0.68 x 9.27 x 6.39 IN
Publication Date: October 13, 2023
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