The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction: 29 (Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature) - Hardcover

Jesse Matz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405100486 ISBN 13: 9781405100489

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form.

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• A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century.
  
• Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel.
  
• Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction
  
• Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists.
  
• Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.
  
• Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.

About this title

About the Author

Jesse Matz is Assistant Professor at Kenyon College. He is the author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (2001) and winner of Harvard University's Roslyn Abramson prize for excellence in teaching.

From the Back Cover

For at least 100 years now, novelists have experimented with ways to make fiction "modern", to make it better able to reflect and resist the perils and pleasures of modernity. This book looks at how they have done so, tracing the evolution of the modern novel through the twentieth century, and providing a framework through which readers of all kinds can appreciate the significance of the genre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405100486
• ISBN 13: 9781405100489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200