Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction

by Edward Engelberg

Book Overview

In this study of solitude in modernist fiction, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, and how solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a topos. Selected novels are analyzed to highlight the ambiguities that solitude brings to their meanings. The freedom that solitude bestows also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek release. Although such ambiguities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312239475
• ISBN13: 9780312239473
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"