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Modernist Fiction: An Introduction - Softcover

Stevenson, R. W.

 
9780745013039: Modernist Fiction: An Introduction

Synopsis

A comprehensive introduction to modernist fiction, covering a range of novelists and novels and providing a guide to key developments. Drawing on narrative and cultural theory, it discusses the work of leading writers such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndam Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. It also discusses the work of Marcel Proust, an important figure in the context of development of modernism in Europe.

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Review

"A welcome surprise comes in his stirrings into his heady brew of ideas and narrative techniques of the underappreciated Christopher Isherwood and Lewis Grassic Gibbon." -- "Saint Louis Post Dispatch"

"Usefully reveals and illuminates many of the complexities and triumphs of modernist fiction." -- "D.H. Lawrence Review"

"A welcome surprise comes in his stirrings into his heady brew of ideas and narrative techniques of the underappreciated Christopher Isherwood and Lewis Grassic Gibbon." -- Saint Louis Post Dispatch



"Usefully reveals and illuminates many of the complexities and triumphs of modernist fiction." -- D.H. Lawrence Review



-A welcome surprise comes in his stirrings into his heady brew of ideas and narrative techniques of the underappreciated Christopher Isherwood and Lewis Grassic Gibbon.- -- Saint Louis Post Dispatch



-Usefully reveals and illuminates many of the complexities and triumphs of modernist fiction.- -- D.H. Lawrence Review

About the Author

Randall Stevenson is professor of twentieth century literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or coeditor of numerous books, including Literature and the Great War.

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