Hunger And Modern Writing

ISBN: 9783946198161 出版年：2016 页码：160 Rees, Daniel Modern Academic Publishing

Hunger is a contentious theme in modernist literature, and this study addresses its relevance in the works of four major american and european writers. Taking an in-depth look at works by melville,kafka,hamsun, and wright, it argues that hunger is deeply involved with concepts of modernity and modern literature. Exploring how it is bound up with the writer's role in modern society this study draws on two conflicting and complex views of hunger: the first is material, relating to the body as a physical entity that has a material existence in reality. Hunger, in this sense, is a physiological process that affects the body as a result of the need for food, the lack of which can lead to discomfort, listlessness, and eventually death. The second view is that of hunger as an appetite of the mind, the kind of hunger for immaterial things that is associated with an individual's desire for a new form of knowledge, sentiment, or a different way of perceiving the reality of the world.