Download e-book for iPad: The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (Cambridge by Morag Shiach

By Morag Shiach

ISBN-10: 0521670748

ISBN-13: 9780521670746

ISBN-10: 052185444X

ISBN-13: 9780521854443

the unconventional is modernism's most crucial and experimental style. during this 2007 significant other best critics discover the very major pleasures of examining modernist novels, but additionally exhibit how and why interpreting modernist fiction will be tricky. not anyone procedure or variety defines a singular as modernist. as a substitute, those essays clarify the formal recommendations, stylistic personal tastes and thematic matters which unite modernist fiction. additionally they express how modernist novels relate to other kinds of paintings, and to the social and cultural context from which they emerged. along chapters on trendy novelists comparable to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, in addition to lesser-known authors resembling Dorothy Richardson and Djuna Barnes, issues akin to style and geography, time and realization are mentioned intimately. With a chronology and consultant to extra studying, this is often the main available and informative assessment of the style available.

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