Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Ghostwriting Modernism: Transnationalism And Sri Lanka's Migrant HousemaidsISBN13:9780801487750ISBN10:0801487757Author:Sword, Helen (Author)Description:Spiritualism Is Often Dismissed By Literary Critics And Historians As Merely A Victorian Fad Helen Sword Demonstrates That It Continued To Flourish Well Into The Twentieth Century And Seeks To Explain Why Literary Modernism, She Maintains, Is Replete With Ghosts And Spirits In Ghostwriting Modernism She Explores Spiritualism's Striking Persistence And What She Calls The Vexed Relationship Between Mediumistic Discourse And Modernist Literary Aesthetics Sword Begins With A Brief Historical Review Of Popular Spiritualism's Roots In Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture In Subsequent Chapters, She Discusses The Forms Of Mediumship Most Closely Allied With Writing, The Forms Of Writing Most Closely Allied With Mediumship, And The Thematic And Aesthetic Alliances Between Popular Spiritualism And Modernist Literature Finally, She Accounts For The Recent Proliferation Of A Spiritualist-Influenced Vocabulary (Ghostliness, Hauntings, The Uncanny) In The Works Of Historians, Sociologists, Philosophers, And Especially Literary Critics And Theorists Documenting The Hitherto Unexplored Relationship Between Spiritualism And Modern Authors (Some Credulous, Some Skeptical), Sword Offers Compelling Readings Of Works By James Joyce, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, H D , James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, And Ted Hughes Even As Modernists Mock Spiritualism's Ludicrous Lingo And Deride Its Metaphysical Excesses, She Finds, They Are Intrigued And Attracted By Its Ontological Shiftiness, Its Blurring Of The Traditional Divide Between High Culture And Low Culture, And Its Self-Serving Tendency To Favor Form Over Content (Medium, So To Speak, Over Message) Like Modernism Itself, Sword Asserts, Spiritualism Embraces Rather Than Eschews Paradox, Providing An Ideological Space Where Conservative Beliefs Can Coexist With Radical, Even Iconoclastic, Thought And Action Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Cornell University PressPublication Date:2002-01-17Weight:0.69 lbsDimensions:0.57'' H x 9.1'' L x 5.96'' WNumber of Pages:232Language:English
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Book Title: Ghostwriting Modernism
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Helen Sword
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Horror & Supernatural, Modern / 20th Century, American / General, Spiritualism, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
