Modernist futures : innovation and inheritance in the contemporary novel /

"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 M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, David, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1900-2099
Modernism (Literature)
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Roman > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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