Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism
by Gontarski, S. E.; Ardoin, Paul; Mattison, LaciFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-12-27
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has re-popularized Bergson for the twenty-first century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on Modernism while also tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson's work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson either corresponded with or critiqued.
Table of Contents
Introduction (S.E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, and Laci Mattison) I. Conceptualizing Bergson S.E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, and Laci Mattison II. Bergson and Aesthetics / Bergson and Literary Modernists (Paul Douglass, San Jose State University) / Comedies of Errors: Bergson's Theory in Modernist Translations (Jan Walsh Hokenson, Florida Atlantic University) / Perception Sickness: Bergsonian Sensitivity and Modernist Paralysis (Paul Ardoin, Florida State University) / 'Thought thinks in its own right': A.A. Luce, Samuel Beckett, and Bergson's Doctrine of Failure (S.E. Gontarski, Florida State Univeristy) / 'Blast Bergson?' Wyndham Lewis' 'Guilty Fire of Friction' (Charlotte de Mille, Courtauld Institute) / Henri Bergson and the Languages of Modernism (Sarah Posman, Ghent University) / Modernist Poetics and the Virtual Image: H.D.'s 'little boxes, conditioned to hatch butterflies' (Laci Mattison, Florida State University) / Bergson and Proust (Peter Gunter, University of North Texas) / Matter and Memory in Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Dustin Anderson, Georgia Southern University) / A Meeting of Minds: Bergson, Joyce, Nabokov (Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) / Time and Free Will: Agency in Four Dimensions in the Graphic Novels of Alan Moore (Eric Berlatsky, Florida Atlantic University) / Bergson and Cinema (John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London) / III. Glossary / Bibliography / Index
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