Modernism and Cosmology: Absurd Lights

by K. Ebury

Overview

Through examining the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, Katherine Ebury shows cosmology had a considerable impact on modernist creative strategies, developing alternative reading models of difficult texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137393746
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/25/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Katherine Ebury is a Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her reviews and articles have appeared in Joyce Studies Annual, Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/Modernity, James Joyce Quarterly and Journal of Literature and Science.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Cosmic Modernism 2. Yeatsian Cosmology 3. Joycean Cosmologies 4. Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in the Wake 5. The Beckettian Cosmos 6. Stars and Atoms in 'The Trilogy' Epilogue – International Modernism Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

Ebury’s book offers excellent observations on the origins and functions of a vast number of astronomical references she traces in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett, and the author constructively brings together and builds on the large number of recent studies on the scientific reading of her subjects. … Cosmology and Modernism offers an enticing roadmap for novelistic astropoetics that will surely generate further explorations of the field.” (Florian Kläger, Symbolism, October, 2016)

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