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This study focuses on texts exploring human proclivity to violent behaviour. Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard, and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Curyllo-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of crisis which even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Arranged in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis and Lawrence reveal an unfolding pattern and form a triptych, indicative of the growing intensity of the epoch in which they were produced.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 128
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Imprint: Jagiellonian University Press
Publication Date:
22 June 2010
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.40 in
ISBN: 9788323332329
Format: Paperback
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The merit of the work is to tap into the deep layer of communications and mutual conflict as literary form, symbolism of gestures and behaviors, in a word of what Irving Goffman defines in his sociological analysis as a "presentation of self."
Izabela Curyllo-Klag teaches in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Her research interests include: the modern British novel, dystopian writing and Roman noir, and the intersections between literature, history, and culture. She has published articles on modernist fiction and co-edited an anthology of immigrant memoirs, The British Migrant Experience, 1700-2000.