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Waking Sleep: The Uncanny In Modernist Literary Aesthetics, Delmar R. Reffett Jr.
Waking Sleep: The Uncanny In Modernist Literary Aesthetics, Delmar R. Reffett Jr.
Theses and Dissertations--English
With the dawning of the twentieth century, writers and critics found themselves facing a social world undergoing massive change, the forces of capitalist modernity leaving the individual increasingly disaffected and disconnected from her surroundings. This social world, rent as it was by alienation, offered a hostile environment for the sort of coherence that had traditionally been prized by Western aesthetics since the Enlightenment. How could a literary work attain a degree of coherence while reflecting a deeply dissonant modernity? Navigating this contradiction between literature’s inherited values and literature’s possibilities in alienated society can be seen as central to the project …