Overview
Advances scholarship of literary modernism and narrative studies
Applies queer temporality to modernist literature
Explores the ways in which modernist writers challenged narrative conventions
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory’s recent work on time owes a debt to modernist authors who developed new ways of representing temporality in their texts. By reading a series of early twentieth-century literary texts from modernists like Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner, and Stein alongside contemporary authors, this book examines the way in which modernist writers challenged narrative conventions of time in ways that both illuminate and foreshadow current scholarship on queer temporality. In her analyses of contemporary novelists and critics Michael Cunningham, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, and Eve Sedgwick, Haffey also shows that these modernist temporalities have been reconfigured by contemporary authors to develop new approaches to futurity.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kate Haffey is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Her work focuses on twentieth-century literature and queer theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality
Book Subtitle: Eddies in Time
Authors: Kate Haffey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17301-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17300-5Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17301-2Published: 24 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Queer Theory