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The legacies of modernism : historicising postwar and contemporary fiction /
"An engagement with the continued importance of modernism is vital for building a nuanced account of the development of the novel after 1945. Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative w...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=rHLIXgYYFr0C&pg=PR1&dq=the+legacies+of+modernism&hl=en&sa=X&ei=it9-VP2fDYyiugTjl4CgCg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20legacies%20of%20modernism&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: mapping modernist continuities David James; Part I. Early Legacies: Inheriting Modernism at Mid-Century and Beyond: 1. Not what it used to be: nostalgia and the legacies of modernism Randall Stevenson; 2. H. E. Bates, regionalism and late modernism Dominic Head; 3. Moving beyond modernism in the fiction of B. S. Johnson: charting influences and comparisons Philip Tew; Part II. Modernist Aesthetics in Transition: Character, Perception, Innovation: 4. Thinking in literature: modernism and contemporary neuroscience Patricia Waugh; 5. Autonomous automata: opacity and the fugitive character in the modernist novel and after Julia Jordan; 6. Pseudo-Impressionism? Jesse Matz; 7. 'Advancing along the inherited path': Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and the idea of being traditionally new David James; Part III. Reassessing the Ethics of Modernist Fiction: 8. A complex legacy: modernity's uneasy discourse of ethics and responsibility Tim Woods; 9. 'A renewed sense of difficulty': E. M. Forster, Iris Murdoch and Zadie Smith on ethics and form Andrzej Gasiorek; 10. 'Myths of desire': D. H. Lawrence, language and ethics in A. S. Byatt's fiction Peter Preston; Part IV. Modernism's Global Afterlives: 11. Fictions of global crisis Peter Middleton; 12. Representing slums and home: Chris Abani's Graceland Susan Z. Andrade; 13. For translation: Virginia Woolf, J. M. Coetzee and transnational comparison Rebecca L. Walkowitz; Epilogue: finding the dreadfully real Adam Thorpe.