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03382aam a2200457 i 4500 001 75A316CEE6E611E7A3BFBD0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171222010219 008 150731t20162016nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015021267 020 $a 1107131480 020 $a 9781107131484 035 $a (OCoLC)923728033 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d GZN $d TFW $d S3O $d GZM $d NLGGC $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e 050 00 $a PN3352.F35 $b U55 2016 082 00 $a 809/.93358207 $2 23 100 1 $a Ullyot, Jonathan, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015047291 245 14 $a The medieval presence in modernist literature : $b the quest to fail / $c Jonathan Ullyot (University of Chicago). 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a vii, 213 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: failure aesthetics and the modernist quest narrative -- The Golden Bowl and the Holy Grail -- Jessie Weston and the mythical method of The Waste Land -- Kafka's Grail castle -- CeÌline's knight of the apocalypse -- Molloy or Le Conte du Graal -- Conclusion: reading failure. 520 $a "Jonathan Ullyot's The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Ullyot argues that these texts serve as a continuation of the Grail legend inspired by medieval scholarship of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than adapt the story of the Grail, modernist writers intentionally failed to make the Grail myth cohere, thus critiquing the way a literary work establishes its authority by alluding to previous traditions. While the quest to fail is a modernist ethic often misconceived as a pessimistic response to the collapse of traditional humanism, the modernist writings of Eliot, Kafka, and CeÌline posit that the possibility of redemption presents itself only when hope has finally been abandoned"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a European prose literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a European prose literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Failure (Psychology) in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046884 650 0 $a Civilization, Medieval $x Influence. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z Europe. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010102202 650 7 $a Modernism (litteratur) $2 sao 650 7 $a Europeisk litteratur $x historia. $2 sao 650 7 $a Misslyckande (psykologi) i litteraturen. $2 sao 600 14 $a Weston, Jessie Laidlay, $d 1850-1928. $0 (NL-LeOCL)068416296 600 14 $a Kafka, Franz, $d 1883-1924. $0 (NL-LeOCL)068494157 600 14 $a CeÌline, Louis-Ferdinand, $c pseud. van Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches. $0 (NL-LeOCL)068783884 600 14 $a Beckett, Samuel $q (Samuel Barclay), $d 1906-1989. $0 (NL-LeOCL)068463928 600 14 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916. $0 (NL-LeOCL)068403410 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222024414.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=75A316CEE6E611E7A3BFBD0A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search