Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation by Sara Crangle

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

Sara Crangle

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nonfiction classics literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 framew...

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