The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Kern, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107400422 ISBN 13: 9781107400429

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.

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Book Description:

Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. A fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1107400422
• ISBN 13: 9781107400429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266