Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature

Name: Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Brand: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
SKU: 9782367814117
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ISBN: 978-2-367-81411-7

de Jean-Michel Ganteau (éditeur), Christine Reynier (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée

décembre 2023

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Résumé

This volume comes as a sequel to a previous publication, Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature, which explored the paradoxical connections between impersonality and emotion, two notions central to modernist as well as to later British literature. Through the double prism of impersonality and emotion, the first set of articles presented here bring to light if not the tenets of Modernism, at least some of the aesthetic principles of representative artists of the time and, from Beardsley to Hitchcock through Windham Lewis, Gaudier Brzeska and Epstein, browses through various forms like drawing, architecture, film and the radio play. The second half of he volume concentrates on the post-war period, addressing the vexed question of the relationships between impersonality and emotion in film (Antonioni), drama (Bond), photography (Brandt, Almond), painting (School of London), architecture, and other types of contemporary manifestations and installations practiced by the Young British Artists and their contemporaries (Hirst, Taylor-Wood, Floyer, Whiteread, Opie among others). The twenty two articles in this collection unearth lines of force that run all the way from romanticism to postmodernism. While stressing the unexpected perenniality of the impersonal, they give the lie to Fredric Jameson’s famous vision of contemporary literature as characterised by a ‘waning of affect'.

Auteur

Jean-Michel Ganteau (Edité par)

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier 3 (France) where he co-chaired the CERVEC research team between 2004 and 2010. He is at the moment in charge of the postgraduate programmes and at chairs the Doctoral School (ED58). He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines (volume 49 has just been released). He is the author of three monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001), Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (Michel Houdiard, 2008) and The Aesthetics and Ethics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2015). He is also the editor, with Christine Reynier, of four volumes of essays Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Publications Montpellier 3, 2005), Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Arts (Presses universitaires de la Méditerrannée, 2007), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), and Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012). He has also edited several volumes of essays in collaboration with Susana Onega, The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960s (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2010),Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2013) and Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form (Routledge, 2014). He has edited special issues of various journals (Études anglaises, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens). He has published numerous articles on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects (as manifest in such aesthetic resurgences and concretions as the baroque, kitsch, camp, melodrama, romance), in France and abroad (other European countries, the USA) as chapters in edited volumes or in such journals as Miscelanea, Anglia, Symbolism, The Cambridge Quarterly, etc.
Christine Reynier (Edité par)

Christine Reynier is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montpellier 3. She has published extensively on major modernist writers, edited books and journals on Woolf (Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens 62, octobre 2005; Journal of the Short Story in English 50, July 2008) and published Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). She is the editor, with J.-M. Ganteau, of Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012), Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19^th- to 21^st-Century British Literature, PULM, 2013). She recently organized, with B. Coste and C. Delyfer, the 2013 European Science Foundation Workshop on Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures. Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940. Her latest publications include ‘The Outrageousness of Outrage in Daphne du Maurier’s “Monte Verità”,’ Études britanniques contemporaines 45 (déc. 2013) http://ebc.revues.org/577 and ‘Virginia Woolf’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy,’ John Hopkins University Press, Philosophy and Literature 38/1 (April 2014).