Twentieth-century literature : critical issues and themes
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Twentieth-century literature : critical issues and themes
St.Martin's Press, 1996
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Description
By studying the nature of disbelief, the treatment of childhood, the presentation of moral and political problems, the taste for experimentation and the greater liberty now available for the description of sexual experiences, this introduction to twentieth-century literature seeks to define what distinguishes the literature of the twentieth century from that of the periods preceding it. Particular attention is given to the problem of realism, especially in the context of the 'magical realism' practised by European as well as non-European authors.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Acknowledgements - Themes, Variations and Constants - Visions of Childhood I: The Child Unhappy on its Own Account - Visions of Childhood II: The Child Wicked on its Own Account - Varieties of Realism I: Plays, Intertextuality and Myth - Varieties of Realism II: Censorship, the Novel and the City - Varieties of Realism III: Naturalism, Tragedy and the Unconscious - Moral Certainties and the Problem of Determinism - Moral Dilemmas I: Religion, Ethics and Some Incidental Truths - Moral Dilemmas II: Philosophy, Free Will and Some Visions of the Future - Moral Dilemmas III: Ends, Means and Irony - Politics, Commitment and the Responsibilities of the Scientist - Madness, History and Sex - Magic Realism, Postmodernism and Toni Morrison - Bibliography - Notes - Index
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