172 p. Ph.d. 1996 Yale University Director: Josefina Ludmer
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“emphasizes the fascination of modernist writers with turn-of-the-century anarchist terrorism and suggests that modernist novels concerning anarchism provide exceptionally clear evidence of an ideological dynamic whereby the narrative fictions of bourgeois society enact and sensationalize deviance only to recontain it in the interests of social integrity. The introductory chapter adopts theories of Enzensberger, Marcuse, Caslinescu, Poggioli and Nordau to establish the pertinence of anarchism as a critical category in modernist and avant-garde literature, as well as providing a brief historical account of the influence of anarchist movements in Spain and Argentina"