| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-220) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Contemporary fiction and the promise of modernism -- 'Advancing along the inherited path': making it traditionally new in Milan Kundera and Philip Roth -- 'The perfect state for a novel': Michael Ondaatje's cubist imagination -- 'Spare prose and a spare, thrifty world': J.M. Coetzee's politics of minimalism -- 'The dead hand of modernism': Ian McEwan, reluctant impressionist -- 'License to strut': Toni Morrison and the ethics of virtuosity. |
| Summary |
"In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. By rethinking critical and disciplinary parameters, James brings scholarship on contemporary fiction into dialogue with modernist studies, offering a nuanced account of narrative strategies that sheds new light on the form of the novel today. An ambitious and incisive contribution to the field, this book will appeal especially to scholars of modernism and contemporary literary culture as well as those in American and postcolonial studies."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: James, David, 1979- Modernist futures. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107022478 (DLC) 2012009119 (OCoLC)780161604 |
| ISBN |
9781139528597 (EBL e-book) |
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1139528599 (EBL e-book) |
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9781139526203 (electronic book) |
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1139526200 (electronic book) |
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9781139136754 (electronic book) |
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1139136755 (electronic book) |
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9781107022478 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1107022479 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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