Modernist short fiction and things / Aimée Gasston.
Gasston, Aimée, author.
2021
PR881 .G37 2021
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Title Modernist short fiction and things / Aimée Gasston.
Author Gasston, Aimée, author.
ISBN 3030785440 (electronic book)
9783030785444 (electronic bk.)
9783030785437 (hardcover)
3030785432 (hardcover)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78544-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-78544-4 doi
Call Number PR881 .G37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.91209112
Summary This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote. Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology. ' It offers a suggestive analysis of the ways in which three modernist writers mobilise the thing-like quality of the short story form for an exploration of the uncanniness of the object world. The close readings of Woolf, Mansfield and Bowen are inventive, thoughtful and perceptive. - Clare Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK.
Note Introduction. Chapter 1: Virginia Woolf's Armchair Aesthetics. Chapter 2: Katherine Mansfield and the Story-as-Snack. Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bowen and Eccentric Accessories. Conclusion: Stories and their Objects, Reading and Being.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Material modernisms.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Note on Quotations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Modernist Short Fiction, the Canon and Criticism
Short Fiction Practice
Modernist Literature, Everyday Things
Snacks, Armchairs, Hats and Gloves
Chapter 2: Virginia Woolf's Armchair Aesthetics
Mental Furniture
The Armchair Critic and Critical Reading
Short Fiction as Armchair Literature
'The Mark on the Wall': Armchair Phenomenology
The View from the Armchair
Against Taxonomy
Reading Beyond the Page

'Sympathy' and 'A Summing Up': Armchairs, Stories and 'Being-Toward-Death'
'Solid Objects': The Democracy of Matter
Concluding Remarks: Armchair Phenomenology
Chapter 3: Snacks and Katherine Mansfield
Hors-d'oeuvres: The Life Beside the Work
Literary Fodder
A Thousand Leaves, with Cream: Tea with Oscar Wilde
Mansfield's Aesthetics: Re-creation and the Story-Snack
Stories, Snacks, Scraps
Short Rations
Bliss: Food for Thought
Abstention and Rot
Imaginative Snacking
Preludes
Creative Objects and Illuminating Experience

Dismantling the Victorian Meal: The Garden Party and Illicit Snacks
Cream Puffs and Bread and Butter
Chocolate Cake, Prepared Foods and Eggs in Various Forms
Concluding Remarks: Aftertaste
Chapter 4: Elizabeth Bowen and Eccentric Accessories
Accessories, Stories and the Dangerous Supplement
Detail, Women and War
Eccentric Reading
Hats
Angry Ghosts and Fairy Godmothers: 'Pink May' and 'Fairies at the Christening'
'Ann Lee's': Eccentric Logic
Gloves
Clues
Coming Home? Gloves and Creative Reading
'Dead Mabelle': Reading the Periphery

'A Love Story': Eccentric Meaning
'The Girl with the Stoop': Fortune Telling and Passive Reading
'The Demon Lover' and 'Hand in Glove': Reading Crimes and Punishment
Concluding Remarks: Eccentric Reading
Chapter 5: Conclusion: Stories and Their Objects-Reading and Being
Last Thoughts
List of Abbreviations
Books
Libraries
Bibliography
Index

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