An edition of Unmaking love (2017)

Unmaking love

the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union

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Unmaking love
Ashley T. Shelden
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An edition of Unmaking love (2017)

Unmaking love

the contemporary novel and the impossibility of union

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"The author examines how the romantic conception of love has been critiqued, destroyed, and reoriented in modernist and contemporary novels"--

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Language
English
Pages
186

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Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union
2017, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : unmaking love
Lesbian fantasy : psychoanalysis, the legacy of modernist love, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
The ends of love : amorous redemption, the passion for negativity, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy
Amorous time : nostalgia, temporality, and the pursuit of optimism in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty
Cosmopolitan love : encountering difference in Hari Kunzru's Transmission and Kazuo Ishiguro's The unconsoled
Conclusion : otherness, Cloud atlas, and contemporary literature.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-177) and index.

Series
Literature now, Literature Now
Other Titles
Contemporary novel and the impossibility of union

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.08509
Library of Congress
PR888.L69 S457 2017, PR888.L69S457 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 186 pages
Number of pages
186

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26967090M
ISBN 10
0231178220
ISBN 13
9780231178228
LCCN
2016024430
OCLC/WorldCat
950448261

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