Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel by Mark Taylor

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel by Mark Taylor

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Zusammenfassung

Contends that the twentieth century novel’s approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous theories of psychic connection

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Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel by Mark Taylor

Criticism of the novel routinely starts with the assumption that characters must think, develop and strive for self-fulfilment as individuals. This book challenges the paradigm that individualism is innate to the novel as a medium. It describes how major writers throughout the twentieth century – many convinced by the supposed findings of parapsychology – rejected the idea of the discrete character. Treating the self as porous, they offered novels structured around the development of communities and ideas rather than individuals. By focusing on D. H. Lawrence, Olaf Stapledon, Aldous Huxley and Doris Lessing, Mark Taylor demonstrates the need to broaden our approach to character when addressing the novel of the twentieth century and beyond.
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ISBN 13 9781399524483
ISBN 10 1399524488
Titel Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel
Autor Mark Taylor
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2024-01-12
Seitenanzahl 200
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