Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf

ISBN-13: 9780415285438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 176 str.

UK) Parsons Deborah (University of Birmingham

Opis

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, this book considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. It explores the connections between their theories, and gives attention to their work on various aspects.

Recenzje

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007

"A clear, concise introduction to modernist views of the novel"

J. W. Moffett, Kentucky Wesleyan College, for CHOICE magazine, Sep 2007, vol 45, no. 01, p. 374.

 "This one does an amazing job precisely because it manages to prepare readers without taking the sense of discovery away. Parsons is the kind of guide you want for an introduction of this sort: clear, focused, balanced, learned, and attuned to her audience's needs."
--James Joyce Quarterly

 

Spis treści

Why Joyce, Woolf and Richardson?  Key Ideas  1. A New Realism.  Realism and Reality.  Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.  2. Character and Consciousness  3. Gender and the Novel  4. Time and History  After Joyce  Further Reading.  Works Cited

O autorze

Deborah Parsons