Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation

by Sara Crangle

Exploring a variety of everyday human longings as they arise in modernist fiction, this book poses a direct challenge to psychoanalytic criticism that characterises desire as sexual or powerful in nature. Using continental philosophy as its framework, Prosaic Desires contends that human longings are as endless in kind as they are in manifestation. As philosophy moved into the twentieth century, there was a discernible shift in emphasis from individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748640851
• ISBN13: 9780748640850
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher