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

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