- EAN13
- 9782367814063
- Éditeur
- Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
- Date de publication
- 25/03/2022
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- Horizons anglophones
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- anglais
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Questioning “Modernism and Unreadability” means exploring Modernism from the
perspective of one of its most problematic effects: unreadability. Modernism
is approached through the lens of texts known to be particularly resistant to
interpretation-“ borderline” modernist texts which fall de facto under the
category of the unreadable, i.e., texts which need to be “unraveled” (Barthes)
rather than deciphered. Those texts, now part of the literary canon, raise
problems of deciphering/comprehension which defer and displace the question of
interpretation. From Stein to Eliot, several canonical texts foil reading,
articulation, and commentary. Given its intensity, we need to ask ourselves to
what extent modernist unreadability defines a unique historical moment. This
latter hypothesis underwrites a polemical notion of literary history as a
succession of breaks made manifest by the emergence of radically new
paradigms-such as unreadability- through which Modernist writings question
literariness from the angle of literalness, and challenge literature-both as a
practice and as a historical institution-to account for itself, to justify its
procedures and its tacitly or implicitly held beliefs, to deconstruct the very
meaning of writing and reading.
perspective of one of its most problematic effects: unreadability. Modernism
is approached through the lens of texts known to be particularly resistant to
interpretation-“ borderline” modernist texts which fall de facto under the
category of the unreadable, i.e., texts which need to be “unraveled” (Barthes)
rather than deciphered. Those texts, now part of the literary canon, raise
problems of deciphering/comprehension which defer and displace the question of
interpretation. From Stein to Eliot, several canonical texts foil reading,
articulation, and commentary. Given its intensity, we need to ask ourselves to
what extent modernist unreadability defines a unique historical moment. This
latter hypothesis underwrites a polemical notion of literary history as a
succession of breaks made manifest by the emergence of radically new
paradigms-such as unreadability- through which Modernist writings question
literariness from the angle of literalness, and challenge literature-both as a
practice and as a historical institution-to account for itself, to justify its
procedures and its tacitly or implicitly held beliefs, to deconstruct the very
meaning of writing and reading.
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