Machinic Modernism
The Deleuzian Literary Machines of Woolf, Lawrence and Joyce
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Beatrice Monaco
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Palgrave Macmillan
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ISBN-10: 0230219365
ISBN-13: 978-0230219366
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Description
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This book reveals the rich 'metaphysics' of modernist literature through a Deleuzian and Guattarian lens, using their radical philosophical concepts to revisit key texts, including Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and Joyce's Ulysses. The philosophy allows Monaco to draw an immanent map of the modernist literature that reviews the charged and complex political and aesthetic territory of modernism and its confrontation with the machine age in terms of the dazzling array of pragmatic effects or 'machines' in the texts. This is a lively, cutting-edge intersection of philosophy and literature that suggests that the critical text must itself become a 'machine': a pragmatic, and not merely interpretive, agent.

Contents
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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Towards a Literary Critical Machine
The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse
The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow
Ulysses: The Hyperconscious Machinic Text
Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence’s Later Works
Orlando and The Waves: Machinic Triumph of Form
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Author Biography
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BEA MONACO has lived and researched in three different continents, and gained her PhD from the University of London, UK, where she now teaches.
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