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9780801489730

Unknowing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801489730

  • ISBN10:

    0801489733

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-09-22
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Author Biography

Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(10)
1. Leaping: Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling 11(10)
Part One. Knowing: "Sapere Aude!"—The West Dares to Know 21(56)
2. Genealogy of Realism: An Enlightenment Narrative in Five Stages
23(26)
3. Anatomy of Realism: Coming to Know, from Defoe to Dostoevsky
49(28)
Part Two. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction 77(118)
4. Plotting Modernism: Freud
79(16)
5. Uncanny Space: Flaubert to Beckett
95(26)
6. Unbound Time: Proust, Kafka, Faulkner
121(42)
7. Subject and/as Other: Kafka, Proust, Faulkner
163(32)
Part Three. Beyond Knowing: Postmodern and Postcolonial Flights from Gravity 195(57)
8. Adventures in Hyperspace
197(9)
9. Urban Nightmare and City Dreams: Rilke and Calvino
206(11)
10. Passage and Passing: Forster and Rushdie
217(14)
11. Arrest and Release: Faulkner, Garcia Márquez, Morrison
231(21)
Conclusion: Acknowledging—Modernism's Weak Messianic Power 252(9)
Notes 261(42)
Index 303

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