Paranoid Modernism : Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization

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“Book jacket is slightly worn at top. Pages are bright white and very nice. No known marks.”
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Psychology
ISBN
9780198187554
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198187556
ISBN-13
9780198187554
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1925670

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
364 Pages
Publication Name
Paranoid Modernism : Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Subject
General, Ancient & Classical, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Author
David Trotter
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2001-032869
Reviews
Trotter has a complicated story to tell, but he tells it with admirable lucidity ... erudite and exhilarating., ... important study ... The sheer sweep of [Trotter's] study is impressive ... His analyses are never less than illuminating ... Trotter's interpretations are invariably stimulating., Introduction 1. A Brief History of Paranoia 2. Paranoia, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Theory 3. Career Development: William Godwin, Wilkie Collins, and the Psychopathologies of Expertise 4. Towards an Epidemiology of Paranoid Narrative 5. One of Whom? Lord Jim and 'Ability in the Abstract' 6. Ford's Impressionism 7. The Will-to-Abstraction: Hulme, Lewis, Lawrence 8. D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love, Men in Madness 9. Wyndham Lewis's Professions 10. Beyond Modernism, Beyond Paranoia Index, This is a significant study of modernism that is likely to change the way readers look, not just at modern literature, but at literature and art generally. It demonstrates beyond question that paranoia and literature have much in common.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
823/.9109112
Table Of Content
Introduction1. A Brief History of Paranoia2. Paranoia, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Theory3. Career Development: William Godwin, Wilkie Collins, and the Psychopathologies of Expertise4. Towards an Epidemiology of Paranoid Narrative5. One of Whom? Lord Jim and 'Ability in the Abstract'6. Ford's Impressionism7. The Will-to-Abstraction: Hulme, Lewis, Lawrence8. D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love, Men in Madness9. Wyndham Lewis's Professions10. Beyond Modernism, Beyond ParanoiaIndex
Synopsis
The early twentieth century notoriously saw an unprecedented wave of experiment in the arts. So intense was this activity that one can without exaggeration speak of a will to experiment (to 'make it new'). Where did that will to experiment come from? Why did it so insistently take the forms it took? Looking specifically at Modernism in England, David Trotter seeks answers in the careers of three novelists writing in the first decades of the century: Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis. The context he proposes for their work is that of contemporary understandings of the function and value of expertise, and of the dilemmas peculiar to those possessing it. There is a certain madness about the expert's pursuit of expertise, and about his or her disappointment if expertise fails to yield adequate social recognition. The early psychiatric literature identified this madness as paranoia, and the textbooks and case-histories find an uncanny echo in Modernist fiction. In the obstinacy of their will to experiment, Ford, Lawrence, and Lewis wrote about, and lived, paranoia. To understand that obstinacy in its professional and psychiatric contexts is to approach from a new and unexpected angle the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture which currently characterize the study of Modernism. The energies it shook loose in their writing are energies which, evading absorption into the 'postmodern', continue to shape Western society and culture to this day., What provoked the fierce and systematic 'will to experiment' that was Modernism? Paranoia--thought especially to afflict those whose identities were founded on professional expertise--was described in the contemporary psychiatric literature as the violent imposition of system onto life's randomness. Modernism's great writers--Conrad, Ford, Lewis, Lawrence--both lived and wrote about these psychopathies of expertise., What provoked the fierce and systematic "will to experiment" that was Modernism? Seeking an answer to this question, David Trotter examines the careers of Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis as well as the early psychiatric literature and case-histories of paranoia. The result is a new and unexpected approach to the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture that currently characterize the study of the period.
LC Classification Number
PR888.M63T76 2001

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