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100 1 _aEbury, Katherine,
_d1986-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aModernism and cosmology :
_babsurd lights /
_cKatherine Ebury, University of Sheffield, UK.
264 1 _aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2014.
300 _avii, 210 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- 1.Introduction: Cosmic Modernism 2.Yeatsian Cosmology3.Joycean Cosmologies4.Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in the Wake5.The Beckettian Cosmos6.Stars and Atoms in 'The Trilogy' Epilogue - International Modernism Bibliography Index.
520 _a"In Modernism and Cosmology, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett are examined as test cases for modernist aesthetic responses to a new cosmology. Katherine Ebury teases out the reception of Einstein's cosmology in modernist literary culture, both locally and globally. Detailed close readings of the key works of Yeats, Joyce and Beckett are used to develop alternative reading models of texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'; within these texts we find multiple references to binary stars, nebulae, the Big Bang Theory, the space-time continuum and the Expanding Universe and many other key concepts of the 'mysterious universe' of the new physics, providing insights into their difficulty, absurdity and beauty. Careful attention to contemporary popularisations allows us to achieve a measure of the intellectual toolbox with which these modernist writers equipped themselves and to understand their creative transformations of this material"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aModernism (Literature)
650 0 _aCosmology in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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