The Modernist Novel

Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139499477

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The Modernist Novel by Stephen Kern Pdf

Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.

Author : Deborah Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134451326

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Theorists of the Modernist Novel by Deborah Parsons Pdf

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on: forms of realism characters and consciousness gender and the novel time and history. An understanding of these three thinkers is fundamental to a grasp on modernism, making this an indispensable guide for students of modernist thought. It is also essential reading for those who wish to understand debates about the genre of the novel or the nature of literary expression, which were given a new impetus by the pioneering figures of Joyce, Richardson and Woolf.

Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 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.

Author : Manya Lempert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108496025

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Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert Pdf

This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.

Author : Gregory Castle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107034952

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A History of the Modernist Novel by Gregory Castle Pdf

A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. It also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856508

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Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel by Pericles Lewis Pdf

Considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion.

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426589

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Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel by Pericles Lewis Pdf

In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character' prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists' concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individual consciousness to address the distinctively political ways in which the modern nation-state shapes the psyche of its subjects. Tracing this theme through Joyce, Proust and Conrad, amongst others, Lewis claims that modern novelists gave life to a whole generation of narrators who forged new social realities in their own images. Their literary techniques - multiple narrators, transcriptions of consciousness, involuntary memory, and arcane symbolism - focused attention on the shaping of the individual by the nation and on the potential of the individual, in time of crisis, to redeem the nation.

Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470777022

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The Modern Novel by Jesse Matz Pdf

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel. Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists. Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.

Author : Seo Hee Im
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009168380

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The Late Modernist Novel by Seo Hee Im Pdf

This study shows how the late modernist novel incorporated empirical structures as theme and form to expand the genre beyond the nation-state.

Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107083950

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel by Joshua L. Miller Pdf

This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.

Author : J. Dillon Brown
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813933955

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Migrant Modernism by J. Dillon Brown Pdf

In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that emerged in London after World War II. By emphasizing the location in which anglophone Caribbean writers such as George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon produced and published their work, Brown reveals a dynamic convergence between modernism and postcolonial literature that has often been ignored. Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English, literalist aesthetic that dominated postwar literature in London but also served as a self-critical medium through which to treat themes of nationalism, cultural inheritance, and identity.

Author : Morris Beja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003787319

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Epiphany in the Modern Novel by Morris Beja Pdf

Author : Angela Frattarola
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813052434

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Modernist Soundscapes by Angela Frattarola Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, new technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, and radio changed how sound was transmitted and perceived. In Modernist Soundscapes, Angela Frattarola analyzes the influence of “the age of noise” on writers of the time, showing how modernist novelists used sound to bridge the distance between characters and to connect with the reader on a more intimate level. Frattarola tunes in to representations of voices, noise, and music in works by Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, and Samuel Beckett. She argues that the common use of headphones, which piped sounds from afar into a listener’s headspace, inspired modernists to record the interior monologues of their characters in a stream-of-consciousness style. Woolf’s onomatopoeia stemmed from a desire to render the sounds of the world without mediation, similar to how some contemporaries hoped that recording technology would eliminate the need for musicians. Frattarola also explains how Beckett’s linguistic repetition mirrors the mechanical reproduction of the tape recorder. These writers challenged ocularcentrism, the traditional emphasis on vision in art and philosophy, and instead characterized the eye as distancing and analytical and the act of listening as immediate and unifying. Contending that the experimentation typically associated with modernist writing is partly due to this new attentiveness to sound, this book introduces a fresh perspective on texts that set the course of contemporary literature.

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139501514

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Modernism, Satire and the Novel by Jonathan Greenberg Pdf

In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. Through lively and original readings of works by Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and others, this book analyzes a body of literature - late modernist satire - that can appear by turns aloof, sadistic, hilarious, ironic and poignant, but which continually questions inherited modes of feeling. By recognizing the centrality of satire to modernist aesthetics, Greenberg offers not only a new chapter in the history of satire but a persuasive new idea of what made modernism modern.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.