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<The> Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature

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:9781107131484

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978425

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: The Quest to Fail

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\ Jonathan Ullyot, University of Chicago.

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New York

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: Cambridge University Press

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, 2015.

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213 p.

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:ill.

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Index

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Bibliography

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Machine generated contents note: 1. The Golden Bowl and the Holy Grail; 2. Jessie Weston and the mythical method of The Waste Land; 3. Kafka's Grail castle; 4. Ce;line's knight of the apocalypse; 5. Molloy or Le Conte du Graal.

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"Jonathan Ullyot's The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Ullyot argues that these texts serve as a continuation of the Grail legend inspired by medieval scholarship of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than adapt the story of the Grail, modernist writers intentionally failed to make the Grail myth cohere, thus critiquing the way a literary work establishes its authority by alluding to previous traditions. While the quest to fail is a modernist ethic often misconceived as a pessimistic response to the collapse of traditional humanism, the modernist writings of Eliot, Kafka, and Celine posit that the possibility of redemption presents itself only when hope has finally been abandoned"--

European prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism

European prose literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Failure (Psychology) in literature.

Civilization, Medieval-- Influence.

Modernism (Literature)-- Europe

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Ullyot, Jonathan

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20190818104743.0

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