Modernist Fiction

Author : Randall Stevenson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813108144

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Modernist Fiction by Randall Stevenson Pdf

To many writers of the early twentieth century, modernism meant not only the reshaping or abandonment of tradition but also an interest in psychology and in new concepts of space, time, art, and language. Randall Stevenson's important new analysis of the genre presents a lucid, comprehensive introduction to modernist fiction, covering a wide range of writers and works. Drawing on narrative theory and cultural history, Stevenson offers fresh insights into the work of such important modernists as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. In addition he discusses the work of Marcel Proust, an important figure in the development of modernism in Europe. This illuminating book places the new imagination of the modernist age in its historical context and looks at how and why the pressures of early twentieth century life led to the development of this distinctive and influential literary form. This accessible account of modernism, modernity, and the novel will be welcomed by students, scholars, and general readers alike.

Author : Elizabeth Alsop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814255493

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Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction by Elizabeth Alsop Pdf

Uncovers the diversified role dialogue played in early twentieth-century fiction.

Author : Megan Quigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107089594

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Modernist Fiction and Vagueness by Megan Quigley Pdf

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.

Author : Aimée Gasston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030785444

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Modernist Short Fiction and Things by Aimée Gasston Pdf

This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories’ form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote. Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.

Author : Lise Jaillant
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474440820

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Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry by Lise Jaillant Pdf

Publishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.

Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192888464

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Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross Pdf

Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements. These engagements invariably come packaged in, and are shaped by, the language of spectrality. In its capacity to articulate a particular sort of relationship between the past, the present and the future, the spectral concerns the basic question of how to proceed, how to live with-maybe even address-ethical indeterminacy. Whether their spectral rhetoric traces the logics of capitalist possession (Conrad), queer "friendship" and paganized Christianity (Forster), regressive politics haunted by historical traumas (Butts), or the devious passages of perverse desire (Bowen), these writers locate something like hope in their ghosts. The ethical and political impasses they chart through their spectral rhetoric are not final, but temporary, and the drive to overcome them constitutes a tensile optimism.

Author : Timo Müller
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 9783826043529

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The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction by Timo Müller Pdf

Author : William J. Tyler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824863661

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Modanizumu by William J. Tyler Pdf

Remarkably little has been written on the subject of modernism in Japanese fiction. Until now there has been neither a comprehensive survey of Japanese modernist fiction nor an anthology of translations to provide a systematic introduction. Only recently have the terms "modernism" and "modernist" become part of the standard discourse in English on modern Japanese literature and doubts concerning their authenticity vis-a-vis Western European modernism remain. This anomaly is especially ironic in view of the decidedly modan prose crafted by such well-known Japanese writers as Kawabata Yasunari, Nagai Kafu, and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro­. By contrast, scholars in the visual and fine arts, architecture, and poetry readily embraced modanizumu as a key concept for describing and analyzing Japanese culture in the 1920s and 1930s. This volume addresses this discrepancy by presenting in translation for the first time a collection of twenty-five stories and novellas representative of Japanese authors who worked in the modernist idiom from 1913 to 1938. Its prefatory materials provide a systematic overview of the literary movement’s salient features—anti-naturalism, cosmopolitanism, the concept of the double self, and actionism—and describe how modanizumu evolved from its early "jagged edges" into a sophisticated yet popular expression of Japanese urban life in the first half of the twentieth century. The modanist style, characterized by youthful exuberance, a tongue-in-cheek tone, and narrative techniques like superimposition, is amply illustrated. Modanizumu introduces faces altogether new or relatively unknown: Abe Tomoji, Kajii Motojiro, Murayama Kaita, Osaki Midori, Tachibana Sotoo, Takeda Rintaro, Tani Joji, Yoshiyuki Eisuke, and Yumeno Kyusaku. It also revisits such luminaries as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and the detective novelist Edogawa Ranpo. Key works that it culls from the modernist repertoire include Funahashi Seiichi’s Diving, Hagiwara Sakutaro’s "Town of Cats," Ito Sei’s Streets of Fiendish Ghosts, and Kawabata’s film scenario Page of Madness. This volume moves beyond conventional views to place this important movement in Japanese fiction within a global context: an indigenous expression born of the fission of local creativity and the fusion of cross-cultural interaction.

Author : Michaela Bronstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190655396

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Out of Context by Michaela Bronstein Pdf

Introduction: Works for other times -- Rescue work: innovation and continuity in modernist fiction -- Character and identity -- What chronology demands of us -- Needing to narrate -- Modernism today, or, The author becomes a character

Author : Greg Chase
Publisher : Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 183998063X

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Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction by Greg Chase Pdf

Author : Philip M. Weinstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801489733

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Unknowing by Philip M. Weinstein Pdf

Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to 'unknowling' by addressing the work of three experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, & William Faulkner.

Author : Mary Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317026433

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The Labors of Modernism by Mary Wilson Pdf

In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In tracking their movements across the architectural borders separating indoors and outdoors and across the physical doorways between rooms, Wilson illuminates the ways in which the servants who open doors symbolize larger social limits and exclusions, as well as states of consciousness. The relationship between female servants and their female employers is of particular importance in the work of female authors, for whom the home and the novel are especially interconnected sites of authorization and domestication. Modernist fiction, Wilson shows, uses domestic service to tame and interrogate not only issues of class, but also the overlapping distinctions of racial and ethnic identities. As Woolf, Stein, Larsen, and Rhys use the novel to interrogate the limitations of gendered domestic ideologies, they find they must deploy these same ideologies to manage the servant characters whose labor maintains the domestic spaces they find limiting. Thus the position of servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not just as characters, but as conditions for the production of literature and of the homes in which literature is created.

Author : Jessica Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139430777

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Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community by Jessica Berman Pdf

In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community.

Author : Laura Oulanne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000388497

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Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction by Laura Oulanne Pdf

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the material world as both living and lived, and how the spaces they create for challenging gendered social norms can also be nonanthropocentric spaces for encounters between the human and the nonhuman. Using the unique knowledge created by literary works to spark new conversations between phenomenology, cognitive studies, and new materialisms, complemented with a feminist perspective, this book explores how literature can touch the basic experience of being in, feeling and making sense of a material world that is itself alive and active. From a sensitive reading of how three women used the material world to make their readers see, feel, and question the norms shaping our experience, this volume draws a theory of reading affective materiality that illuminates modernism and the short story form but also reaches beyond them.

Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521854443

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The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel by Morag Shiach Pdf

The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.