Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780190655396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Michaela Bronstein

Opis

Out of Context disrupts the notion of static context, instead proposing a transhistorical approach to literature, revealing that the significance of literature is in its moments of surprising reception.

Recenzje

In Out of Context, Bronstein compares modern and contemporary novels, focusing on formal literary elements. The introduction and first chapter explore how past authors influence future authors, particularly the ways contemporary authors have adapted modernist experiments. In the chapters that follow, Bronstein pairs authors, showing how literary techniques could be employed in new ways. []The brief comparative analyses throughout Out of Context are insightful and beautifully contextualized, showing that literary techniques can be employed by writers in different circumstances for different rhetorical purposes. Summing Up: Highly recommended

O autorze

Michaela Bronstein is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.