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The modernist short story :

(Number (ISBN

0521104211

(Number (ISBN

0521412366

(Number (ISBN

9780521104210

(Number (ISBN

9780521412360

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b795776

Title Proper

The modernist short story :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a study in theory and practice /

First Statement of Responsibility

Dominic Head.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY, USA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 241 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

Text of Note

The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigorous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. A chapter on Wyndham Lewis explores the use of the form to enact the aesthetics of Vorticism, resulting in the impasse of isolationism in its view of the individual. By contrast, Malcolm Lowry's stories are shown as offering a means of transcending this, in their very different treatment of the individual's experience. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.

Englisch, ...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

Joyce, James.

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957

Lewis, Wyndham.

Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957

Lowry, Malcolm.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Woolf, Virginia.

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.

Short stories, English-- History and criticism.

Short story.

Modernisme (Littérature)-- Grande-Bretagne.

Nouvelle.

Nouvelles anglaises-- Histoire et critique.

Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

English fiction.

Geschichte 1910-1960.

Kurzgeschichte

Littérature anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Moderne

Modernism (Literature)

Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.

Modernisme (littérature)-- Grande-Bretagne.

Nouvelle anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Nouvelle.

Nouvelles anglaises-- Histoire et critique.

Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Short stories, English.

Short story.

Short story.

Englisch.

Great Britain.

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Book number

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Head, Dominic.

Date of Transaction

20201207084517.0

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[Book]

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