If ‘event’ is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature.

Innovative literary form examined from the point of view of the reader's experience Invites a reconsideration of the importance of the formal features of the novel Argues for a focus on the reader's experience of literary form Traces the impact of the modernist revolution on later writers Considers writing from several countries, including Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Africa, Scotland, Pakistan and England The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to...