Forms of modernist fiction : reading the novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy / Derek Attridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attridge, Derek, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

England : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

Innovative literary form examined from the point of view of the reader's experience.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Experience of Form: Joyce and After

1. Modernist Style in the Making: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2. Ulysses and the Question of Modernist Form

3. Nonlexical Onomatopoeia: Hearing the Noises of Ulysses

4. Joycean Pararealism: How to Read 'Circe'

5. After Finnegans Wake : Caryl Churchill's The Skriker

6. The Event of Reading: Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable

7. Multilingualism and Translation: W. F. Hermans' Nooit meer slapen

8. Afrikaans Modernism and the Anglophone Reader: Etienne van Heerden's 30 nagte in Amsterdam

9. Crossings of Place and Time: Zo. Wicomb's Fiction

10. Form and Content: Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries

11. Reading and Choice: Ali Smith's How to Be Both and Marlene van Niekerk's Memorandum

12. Formal Innovation and Affect in the Contemporary Irish Novel: Kevin Barry, Mike McCormack, and Eimear McBride

13. Form, Politics, and Postcolonial Fiction: Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire

14. Joycean Innovation Today: Tom McCarthy's Fiction

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Attridge, Derek Forms of Modernist Fiction

ISBN:

1-3995-1247-1

OCLC:

1391442866