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Understanding Bergson, understanding modernism / edited by Paul Ardoin, S.E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison.

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Understanding Bergson, understanding modernism / edited by Paul Ardoin, S.E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison.
Publication
New York : Continuum, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Ardoin, Paul
  • Gontarski, S. E.
  • Mattison, Laci
Description
343 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This edited volume provides a wide-ranging reassessment of Henry Bergson's immense influence on literary modernism.
Subject
  • Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
  • Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 > Influence
  • Modernism (Literature) > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • (Re)reading Time and free will: (re)discovering Bergson for the twenty-first century / Mary Ann Gillies -- Bergson's Matter and memory: from time to space / David Addyman -- Comedies of errors: Bergson's Laughter in modernist contexts / Jan Walsh Hokenson -- Sub specie durationis, or the free necessity of life's creativeness in Bergson's Creative evolution / David Scott -- A reading of Two sources of morality and religion, or Bergsonian wisdom, emotion, and integrity / Michael R. Kelly -- The inclination of philosophy: The creative mind and the articulation of a Bergsonian method / Paul Atkinson -- Bergson, vitalism, and modernist literature / Paul Douglass -- Perception sickness: Bergsonian sensitivity and modernist paralysis / Paul Ardoin -- "Blast...Bergson?" Wyndham Lewis's "Guilty fire of friction" / Charlotte de Mille -- Bergson and Proust: a question of influence / Peter A. Y. Gunter --^
  • Joyce's matter and memory: perception and memory-events in Finnegans wake / Dustin Anderson -- Minds meeting: Bergson, Joyce, Nabokov, and the aesthetics of the subliminal / Leona Toker -- Modernist energeia: Henri Bergson and the romantic idea of language / Sarah Posman -- H.D.'s intuitional imagism: memory, desire, and the image in process / Laci Mattison -- Bergson and the comedy of horrors / John Mullarkey -- Time and free will: Bergson, modernism, superheroes, and Watchmen / Eric Berlatsky -- The joys of atavism / Claire Colebrook -- Bergson on art and creativity / Mark Antliff -- Bergson on Durée / Rebecca Hill -- Bergson on Élan vital / Paul Douglass -- Bergson on evolution / Claire Colebrook -- Bergson on free will and creativity / Rex Gilliland -- Bergson on habit and perception / Paul Ardoin -- Bergson on idealism and realism / Trevor Perri -- Bergson on image and representation / Garin Dowd -- Bergson on instinct / Paul Atkinson -- Bergson on intuition / David Scott --^
  • Bergson on language / Laci Mattison -- Bergson on memory / Heath Massey -- Bergson on movement and specialization / S.E. Gontarski -- Bergson on multiplicity / Paul Atkinson -- Bergson on organization and manufacture / Scott Ortolano.
ISBN
  • 9781441172211 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1441172211 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012026450
OCLC
  • 813860236
  • SCSB-12172501
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library