T. Prudente (dir.), The Capricious Thread: Memory and the Modernist Text

Référence bibliographique : Teresa Prudente, ed. The Capricious Thread: Memory and the Modernist Text., Edizioni dell'Orso, 2012. EAN13 : 9788862742894.

Teresa Prudente (ed.)

The Capricious Thread: Memory and the Modernist Text

Edizioni dell'Orso
2012 • 140 pp. •  €17,00

This series of essays offers re-discussion of the role and functioning of memory in major Modernist authors by proposing varied approaches and perspectives which interconnect so as to provide a kaleidoscopic view of the ever-open issue of memory and its Modernist reconfiguration.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One: Memory and the Body:

Mariagrazia Tonetto: “I and I: The Permanent Flux. Body, Memory and the Self in Joyce’s Writings”;

Sandeep Parmar: “Racial and Religious Hybridity in Mina Loy’s “Goy Israels”,

Teresa Prudente: “An existence independent of our minds”: Memory, Impersonality and the
Body in Woolf’s The Waves”

Part Two: Memory, Place and Displacement:

Jason Finch: “Place and Oblivion in E.M. Forster’s “West Hackhurst”;

Mariagiulia Garufi: “Memory and Dis/placement in Rebecca West’s The Judge and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”,

Federico Sabatini: “Ruemember”: Place, Displacement and Memory in James Joyce and William Trevor”,

Contributors’ Notes
 

About the editor: Teresa Prudente is a research and teaching fellow in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She has published several essays and book chapters on Modernist authors, with special focus on the connection between literature and philosophy, and the interdisciplinary aspects of the literary work (visual arts, cinema, science). She is the author of A Specially Tender Piece of Eternity: Virginia Woolf and the Experience of Time (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009).