The Capricious Thread: Memory and the Modernist Text

Contents • Introduction • Part One: Memory and the Body • M. G. Tonetto, So Capricious Are We: Flesh, Memory, and the Self in Joyce’s Writings • S. Parmar, Racial and Religious Hybridity in Mina Loy’s “Goy Israels” • T. Prudente, “An existence independent of our minds”: Memory, Impersonality and the Body in Woolf’s The Waves • Part Two: Memory, Place and Displacement • T. Prudente, Individual versus Collective? Layers of Memory in Forster’s “West Hackhurst” • M. Garufi, Memory and Dis/placement in Rebecca West’s The Judge and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. • F. Sabatini, “Ruemember”: Place, Displacement and Memory in James Joyce and William Trevor • Contributors’ Notes