The Modernist Novel : A Critical Introduction
Stephen. Kern
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (268 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; THE MODERNIST NOVEL; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; THE MASTER NARRATIVES; CHAPTER 1 Character; PRESENCE: CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE; SUBSTANCE: CONCRETE NOTHINGNESS; STRUCTURE: BLURRING AND FRAGMENTATION; STABILITY: VOLATILE EGOS; STATURE: A NEW KIND OF HERO; PURPOSE: BILDUNGSROMAN TO KÜNSTLERROMAN; CHAPTER 2 Event; SCALE: RECALIBRATING THE SMALL AND THE LARGE; CAUSALITY: CAUSAL SKEPTICISM, MYTHIC PARALLEL, SPATIAL PATTERNING, CHANCE; PLOT: ANTI-NARRATIVE; CHAPTER 3 Space; TEXTURE: DYNAMIC VOIDS. - CollageCHAPTER 7 Narrator; VISION: SINGULAR, SERIAL, PARALLEL, EMBEDDED; VOICE: NONHUMAN, SHIFTING, MULTIPLE, HETEROGLOSSIA; KNOWLEDGE: CREATIVE UNCERTAINTY; Conclusion; Appendix: novels discussed in this book; Notes; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 CHARACTER; CHAPTER 2 EVENT; CHAPTER 3 SPACE; CHAPTER 4 TIME; CHAPTER 5 FRAMEWORK; CHAPTER 6 TEXT; CHAPTER 7 NARRATOR; CONCLUSION; Index. - MENTAL SPACE: IMPRESSIONISM, FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESSURBAN SPACE: WANDERING ROCKS; CHAPTER 4 Time; ORIENTATION: VALORIZING THE PRESENT; PACE: FASTER, SLOWER, MULTIPLE; CONTINUITY: BROKEN WATCHES IN CONTINUOUS TIME; ORDER: ACHRONY, REPETITION, TRAUMA, EPIPHANY; CHAPTER 5 Framework; BEGINNING: IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS; ENDING: RESOUNDING IRRESOLUTION; Personal narrative; Courtship narrative; CHAPTER 6 Text; MECHANICS: COINED WORDS AND STYLIZED SENTENCES; LANGUAGE: ILLUMINATING OPACITY; STYLE: FEMININE, ABSTRACT, SURREAL, COLLAGIST; Female style; Abstraction; Surrealism. - A comprehensive analysis of how formal innovations in the modernist novel (1900-1940) captured the history of the period.
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| ISBN | 9781107008113. - 9781107400429
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