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پدید آورنده
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PR 888 .M63 M35 2007
PR
888
.
M63
M35
2007
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
eng
Modernist literature :challenging fictions
"Challenging Fiction" is a double entendre. This unusual book argues that modernist fiction is not only difficult )or challenging( to read, it also provokes readers to challenge the fictions that they live by. To read modernist literature in a way that unlocks its humor, its discomfiting insights, and its strong emotional undercurrents, a reader must be both receptive and resistant to the author's perspective, actively challenging it with his or her own experience, knowledge, and sensibilities. Using writers as diverse as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates that the rewards of "challenging fiction" are considerable, and unexpected.
Malden; Oxford
Blackwell
2007
xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]226[-230( and index
ISBN-10: 0631213074
ISBN-13: 9780631213079
Vicki Mahaffey
1
Why read challenging literature? -- Partnering: Holmes and Watson, author and reader, lover and loved, man and wife -- Window painting: the art of blocking understanding -- Watchman, what of the night?
History and criticism Theory, etc ، English fiction - 02th century
History and criticism Theory, etc ، American fiction - 02th century
، Modernism )Literature( - English-speaking countries
Appreciation ، Fiction - English-speaking countries
، Books and reading - English-speaking countries
، Authors and readers
، Reader-response criticism
PR
888
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M63
M35
2007
Mahaffey, Vicki
AU
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