Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780197527009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 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

Michaela Bronstein's account of Conrad's impact on America's Faulkner or Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the single most compelling account I have read of 'influence' in a lifetime of reading. Intricately conversant with Anglophone writers from many geographies and carrying out tour de force feats of stylistic analysis, the book founds a new method of transhistorical literary studies. Its pages seem to announce the coming of a new school of literary thinking.

O autorze

Michaela Bronstein is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.