Indirections of the Novel: James, Conrad, and Forster - Softcover

Graham, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052112994X ISBN 13: 9780521129947

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

By 'indirections', Kenneth Graham means 'the deployment of a radically new openness, obliquity, and contradictoriness of narrative forms, both in the large-scale movements and in the smallest details of descriptive language, scene, and dialogue'. The three masters of indirection in the early modern novel are Henry James, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster. Though very different from each other, each employs a technically innovative style which articulates a response to a world of uncertainty and danger. Professor Graham's study follows this common outlook through analyses of eleven narratives including James' What Maisie Knew and The Golden Bowl, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Nostromo, and Forster's Howards End and A Passage to India. It does so in an empirical critical idiom which seeks to combine textual awareness with a concern for referentiality and for a common language of literary response.

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Book Description:

The three masters of indirection in the early modern novel are Henry James, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster. Though very different from each other, each employs a technically innovative style which articulates a response to a world of uncertainty and danger, as Professor Graham demonstrates.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 052112994X
• ISBN 13: 9780521129947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232