Literary impressionism and modernist aesthetics / Jesse Matz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matz, Jesse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Impressionism in literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--France.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.

Proust, Marcel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Matz examines the writing of such modernists as James, Conrad and Woolf, who used the word impression to describe what they wanted their fiction to present. This study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied writers in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Proust's deathless analogy; CHAPTER 1 Impressions of modernity; CHAPTER 2 Pater's homoerotic impression; CHAPTER 3 The woman of genius; CHAPTER 4 The distant laborer; CHAPTER 5 Woolf's phenomenological impression; CHAPTER 6 Three Impressionist allegories; Conclusion Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Bell; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-274) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-04379-1

0-511-15342-2

0-511-01783-9

OCLC:

707917647