Writing Time: Modernism, Memory, and Desire

Download or read book Writing Time: Modernism, Memory, and Desire written by Gabrielle Shalom McIntire and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing Time: Modernism, Memory, and Desire" places T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf side by side for the first time in a full-length study to argue that despite political and aesthetic differences, and their explicit avowal of the modernist credo to "make it new," both writers persistently turned to the past, and when they did so they figured temporality and memory in terms of sexuality and desire. The project explores what kinds of work memory does in British and American modernism; how memory is constructed vis a vis sexual and textual forms of desire; what ethics Eliot and Woolf developed around sites of memory and desire; and, where and why memory fails.