Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel by Taylor, Mark

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399524483)

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Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel by Taylor, Mark

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

$110.00
Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel by Taylor, Mark

Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Mark Taylor
ISBN-10: 1399524488
ISBN-13: 9781399524483
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2024
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Mark Taylor
By Mark Taylor
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Mark Taylor is a specialist in twentieth-century British literature, most recently working as Assistant Professor in English Literature at HSE University, Moscow. His research focuses on notions of individual and collective selfhood in British literature of the previous century. His work has been published in Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic and Science Fiction Studies.

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