Forms of modernist fiction : reading the novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy

Forms of modernist fiction : reading the novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy / Derek Attridge.

"The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to further innovation. Focusing on the experience of the reader in engaging with a selection of these works from around the globe...

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Main Author: Attridge, Derek (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
Series:JSTOR ebook purchased.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The experience of form: Joyce and after
  • 1. Modernist style in the making: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • 2. Ulysses and the question of modernist form
  • 3. Nonlexical onomatopoeia: Hearing the noises of Ulysses
  • 4. Joycean pararealism: How to read "Circe"
  • 5. After Finnegans Wake : Caryl Churchill's The Skriker
  • 6. The event of reading: Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
  • 7. Multilingualism and translation: W.F. Hermans' Nooit meer slapen
  • 8. Afrikaans modernism and the anglophone reader: Etienne van Heerden's 30 nagte in Amsterdam
  • 9. Crossings of place and time: Zoë Wicomb's fiction
  • 10. Form and content: Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries
  • 11. Reading and choice: Ali Smith's How to Be Both and Marlene van Niekerk's Memorandum
  • 12. Formal innovation and affect in the contemporary Irish novel: Kevin Barry, Mike McCormack, and Eimear McBride
  • 13. Form, politics, and postcolonial fiction: Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
  • 14. Joycean innovation today: Tom McCarthy's fiction
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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