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Understanding Deleuze, understanding modernism
This title explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations.
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Elizabeth Bowen’s Things: Modernism and the Threat of Extinction in The Little Girls
This essay reads Elizabeth Bowen’s
(1963) alongside recent theorists of “thingness,” namely, Bill Brown and Jane Bennett. While Bowen’s things intersect with the social terrain, they also simultaneously and paradoxically destabilize that very reality. This consideration of the nonhuman elements (i.e., the “things”) of Bowen’s work also gives rise to a thinking about the posthuman, which this article approaches in two ways: (1) as, quite literally, a concern about the world after humanity; and (2) as a non-anthropocentric worldview, opened up by a realization that “things” have a life outside the realm of the human. Bowen’s fiction expresses an obvious need for objects to mean something or to represent the human, but her fiction also recognizes their inability to do so. In
, this obsession with objects is coupled with the threat of extinction, which also operates in a dual manner, where the conversation about extinction reveals a fear for the future of the human but also acknowledges the inevitable disappearance of humanity.
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Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism
Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has re-popularized Bergson for the twenty-first century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on Modernism while also tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson's work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson either corresponded with or critiqued.
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Nabokov's Aesthetic Bergsonism: An Intuitive, Reperceptualized Time
Vladimir Nabokov's writing elucidates and revises Henri Bergson's philosophy. By examining Nabokov's idiosyncratic engagement with Bergson's thought in Speak, Memory, this essay demonstrates Nabokov's temporal layering of space, which is predicated on intuition and aesthetic patterning(s). The essay concludes with comments on Spinozian ethics, as integral to intuitional aesthetics.
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Virginia Woolf's Ethical Subjectivity: Deleuze and Guattari's Worlding and Bernard's 'Becoming-Savage'
In Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel
The Waves
, one of Bernard's many becomings - his 'becoming-savage' - reveals a point of intersection between Woolfian aesthetics and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. Moreover, a triangulation of Woolf's 'moments of being', Deleuze and Guattari's 'worlding', and (post)coloniality provides a new and productive node for examining the debates surrounding imperialism in these thinkers' works, and an insistence that Woolf, read alongside Deleuze and Guattari, offers an alternate and precisely ethical way of being in the world.
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From modernism to transnationality: Virginia Woolf, H.D., Yoko Tawada and the ethical de/territorializations of subjectivity
Benedict Anderson has argued that the homogenous time resulting from the emergence of print news and the novel has enabled the \"imagined communities\" necessary for the production of the nation-state. My project, on the other hand, contends that radical communities which transgress the demarcated boundaries of subject and nation are imagined and enabled precisely through the rifts in spatialized time enacted in the fiction and poetry of Virginia Woolf, H.D. and Yoko Tawada. This study argues, then, that non-linear and thus de-spatialized time is an integral and functional element of transnational aesthetics and also affirms that reading backward from contemporary transnational writing opens up a new way of thinking about transnational modernism(s). While time—a fundamental element of modernism proper—has often been occluded in the recent transnational (and spatial) turn in modernist studies, my examination of transnational aesthetics returns to the question of time via Henri Bergson's method of intuition and Gilles Deleuze's conception of \"worlding.\" Beyond the specific cases of these three writers cited above, however, this project offers a re-theorizing of the aesthetic practice of experiential becomings-otherwise, and so, a re-thinking of the politics of nation and subject.
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