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The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature
Jonathan Ullyot
其他書名
The Quest to Fail
出版Cambridge University Press, 2016
主題History / Europe / MedievalLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
ISBN11071314809781107131484
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZEXjCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Jonathan Ullyot's The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Ullyot argues that these texts serve as a continuation of the Grail legend inspired by medieval scholarship of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than adapt the story of the Grail, modernist writers intentionally failed to make the Grail myth cohere, thus critiquing the way a literary work establishes its authority by alluding to previous traditions. While the quest to fail is a modernist ethic often misconceived as a pessimistic response to the collapse of traditional humanism, the modernist writings of Eliot, Kafka, and Céline posit that the possibility of redemption presents itself only when hope has finally been abandoned.