Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel

ISBN-13: 9780367664022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str.

Zena Meadowsong

Opis

Narrative Machine advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization.

Recenzje

"Meadowsong has written a seductive book. As she revisits iconic passages of canonical texts, she offers such lucid and compelling insights that you feel as if you have known them all along." –Robin Blyn, University of West Florida.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1. Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster  Chapter 1: Zola’s monster machines  Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America  Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing  Part 2. Modernism versus the Machine  Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine  Chapter 5: Joyce’s utopian machine  Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust  Part 3. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine  Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick  Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo  Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec

O autorze

Zena Meadowsong is an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University, USA.