Machinic Modernism : The Deleuzian Literary Machines of Woolf, Lawrence and Joyce

How can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century. Contents......Page 7 List of Abbreviations......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 10 1 Towards a Literary Critical Machine......Page 11 Modernism, the organic-mechanical and Deleuze......Page 14 Deleuze-Guattarian multiplicity, univocity, and the machinic......Page 19 The machinic and modernism......Page 23 2 The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse......Page 28 The transcendence and immanence of Ramsay domesticity......Page 34 Becoming......Page 48 ‘Time Passes’: the autonomous narrative......Page 53 ‘The Lighthouse’: aesthetic autonomy......Page 59 3 The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow......Page 64 The primitive metaphysic of The Rainbow......Page 73 Sexual and temporal rhythms......Page 79 The inhuman-corporeal......Page 83 Gender and the decline of civilisation......Page 85 The rise of abstraction......Page 87 4 Ulysses: The Hyperconscious Machinic Text......Page 98 The aesthetic shift as double-action......Page 103 ‘Telemachus’: the microcosmic machine......Page 108 The cinematic textual machine......Page 110 ‘Primitive’ writing......Page 114 Bloom as capitalist subject: the cynical machine......Page 118 Nonsense, paradox and the imaginary......Page 123 ‘Oxen of the Sun’: the despotic machine......Page 124 ‘Circe’: the decoded imaginary......Page 127 ‘Ithaca’: the paradox of the imaginary......Page 130 5 Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence's Later Works......Page 137 Women in Love: ideas versus matter......Page 141 Voices of freedom and of mechanism in the later works......Page 152 Lady Chatterley's Lover: the deified narrative machine......Page 157 6 Orlando and The Waves: Machinic Triumph of Form......Page 164 Orlando: haeccities and creative facts......Page 165 Deleuze and Guattari's cosmic aesthetic......Page 170 The Waves: the pure machinic of form......Page 171 The body of life......Page 177 The rhythm of space......Page 185 The rhythm of time......Page 189 The rhythm of art......Page 193 Conclusion......Page 199 Notes......Page 201 Bibliography......Page 216 E......Page 221 O......Page 222 Z......Page 223 This book reveals the rich 'metaphysics' of modernist literature through a Deleuzian and Guattarian lens, using their radical philosophical concepts to revisit key texts, including Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and Joyce's Ulysses. The philosophy allows Monaco to draw an immanent map of the modernist literature that reviews the charged and complex political and aesthetic territory of modernism and its confrontation with the machine age in terms of the dazzling array of pragmatic effects or 'machines' in the texts. This is a lively, cutting-edge intersection of philosophy and literature that suggests that the critical text must itself become a 'machine' : a pragmatic, and not merely interpretive, agent--Résumé de l'éditeur "The book reveals the rich 'metaphysics' of modernist literature through a Deleuzian and Guattarian lens, using their radical philosophical concepts to revisit key texts, including Woolf's To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and Joyce's Ulysses. The philosophy allows Monaco to draw an immanent map of the modernist literature that reviews the charged and complex political and aesthetic territory of modernism and its confrontation with the machine age in terms of the dazzling array of pragmatic effects or 'machines' in the texts. This is a lively, cutting-edge intersection of philosophy and literature that suggests that the critical text must itself become a 'machine': a pragmatic, and not merely interpretive, agent."--Jacket.