Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction

Engelberg, Edward

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“…This oscillation between solitude and isolation is depicted in the case of Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, 1965;Engelberg, 2001). He is "all alone on an uninhabited island".…”

Section: Emotional Solitudementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Everywhere solitude is a necessary companion to modern urbanity. Most studies of solitude have focused on this modern individualized sense of solitude, while the larger historical and cultural context goes almost unnoticed together with the fact that the preoccupation with solitude, in various forms and functions, has been with us for a longer time span than Modernity and with a broader crosscultural perspective than individual modern sensitivity (Engelberg, 2001;Fergusson, 1992;Hannoun, 1993;Möhrmann, 1974;Naudin, 1995).…”

Section: The Desert and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Into the Desert: Solitude in Culture and Literature

Larsen¹

2013

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Most studies of solitude have focused on the modern individualized sense of solitude, located or originating in urbanized Western cultures where solitude is seen as a companion to urban modernity. In this perspective the larger historical and cultural context goes almost unnoticed together with the fact that the preoccupation with solitude, in various forms and functions, has been around for a longer time span than Modernity and with a broader cross-cultural perspective. However, the basic cultural function of the various understandings of solitude is the same across cultures: a negotiation of the boundaries of the human life world, but in forms that are historically contextualized and differentiated. With texts from William Shakespeare to J. M. Coetzee and with references to older mythology and its modern recycling this paper tries to capture the broader historical development of solitude in European culture as an imagined position on the boundary of the human life world.

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“…This oscillation between solitude and isolation is depicted in the case of Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, 1965;Engelberg, 2001). He is "all alone on an uninhabited island".…”

Section: Emotional Solitudementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Desert and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%