Modernist fiction : an introduction
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Modernist fiction : an introduction
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992
- : pbk
Available at 23 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical notes (p. 225-234), select bibliography (p. 235-242) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A comprehensive introduction to modernist fiction, covering a range of novelists and novels and providing a guide to key developments. Drawing on narrative and cultural theory, it discusses the work of leading writers such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndam Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. It also discusses the work of Marcel Proust, an important figure in the context of development of modernism in Europe.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Modernism and modernity. Part 2 Space: Henry James
- Joseph Conrad
- Ford Madox Ford
- D.H. Lawrence
- Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair
- James Joyce
- Virginia Woolf
- background and context. Part 3 Time: striking clocks and new chronologies
- the time philosophy
- mean time
- fragment or flow
- cracks and chasms. Part 4 Art: art and the novel
- the revolution of language
- modernism and postmodernism. Part 5 Value: the end of modernism
- the evasions of modernism
- the value of modernism.
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