The Pleasure, Unpleasure, and Banality of Modernism

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TWO BOOKS OFFERING NEW TAKES ON MODERNIST LITERATURE   Read an excerpt from the introduction, The Repudiation of Pleasure Read a review and an article on Laura Frost in Times Higher Education Read more reviews             Read an excerpt from the introduction Poetics of the Prosaic      Read the author's post on Prose of the World   Read reviews of the book  The Problem with Pleasure Modernism and Its Discontents Laura Frost   Order with Discount Code PROFRO and Save 30%    Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern 'pleasure,'" or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D. H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss. Capturing the challenging tensions between these artists' commitment to innovation and the stimulating amusements they denounced yet deployed in their writing, Frost calls attention to the central role of pleasure in shaping interwar culture. Order Now and Save 30%! $35.00 $24.50 Use discount code PRFRO at check-out £24.00 | Cloth | 304 pages * Customers in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South Africa should contact customer@wiley.com    Prose of the World  Modernism and the Banality of Empire      Saikat Majumdar  Order with Discount Code PROMAJ and Save 30%   Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from James Joyce's deflated epiphanies to Amit Chaudhuri's disavowal of the grand spectacle of postcolonial national allegories, Majumdar foregrounds the banal as a key instinct of modern and contemporary fiction-one that nevertheless remains submerged because of its antithetical relation to literature's intuitive function to engage or excite. Order Now and Save 30%!  $40.00 $28.00 Use discount code PROMAJ at check-out £17.50 | Paper | 248 pages * Customers in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South Africa should contact customer@wiley.com    More titles in  Literary Studies   FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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