absurd lights Ebury, Katherine 1986- creator author. text bibliography enk 2014 monographic eng

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vii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "In Modernism and Cosmology, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett are examined as test cases for modernist aesthetic responses to a new cosmology. Katherine Ebury teases out the reception of Einstein's cosmology in modernist literary culture, both locally and globally. Detailed close readings of the key works of Yeats, Joyce and Beckett are used to develop alternative reading models of texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'; within these texts we find multiple references to binary stars, nebulae, the Big Bang Theory, the space-time continuum and the Expanding Universe and many other key concepts of the 'mysterious universe' of the new physics, providing insights into their difficulty, absurdity and beauty. Careful attention to contemporary popularisations allows us to achieve a measure of the intellectual toolbox with which these modernist writers equipped themselves and to understand their creative transformations of this material"-- Machine generated contents note: -- 1.Introduction: Cosmic Modernism 2.Yeatsian Cosmology3.Joycean Cosmologies4.Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in the Wake5.The Beckettian Cosmos6.Stars and Atoms in 'The Trilogy' Epilogue - International Modernism Bibliography Index. Katherine Ebury, University of Sheffield, UK. Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index. e-uk--- English literature 20th century History and criticism Modernism (Literature) Cosmology in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh PR478.M6 E28 2014 820.9112 BUM LIT004120 9781137393746 (hardback) 2014019726 http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/746/9781137393746/image/lgcover.9781137393746.jpg http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/746/9781137393746/image/lgcover.9781137393746.jpg DLC 140521 20161212143826.0 18159256 eng