The Late Modernist Novel explores how the novel reinvented itself for a Modernist age, a world riven by war and capitalist expansion. Seo Hee Im argues that the Anglophone novel first had to disassociate itself from the modern nation-state and, by extension, national history, which had anchored the...

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1. Verfasser:	Im, Seo Hee ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
Schlagworte:	American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism Modernism (Literature) Literature and society / History / 20th century
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Zusammenfassung:	The Late Modernist Novel explores how the novel reinvented itself for a Modernist age, a world riven by war and capitalist expansion. Seo Hee Im argues that the Anglophone novel first had to disassociate itself from the modern nation-state and, by extension, national history, which had anchored the genre from its very inception. Existing studies of modernism show how the novel responded to the crisis in the national idea. Polyglot high modernists experimented with cosmopolitanism and multilingualism on the level of style, while the late modernists retreated to a literary nativism. This book explores a younger generation of writers that incorporated empirical structures as theme and form to expand the genre beyond the nation-state
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jun 2022) Introduction. Constructing Totality -- Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability -- Beckett's Hoarding -- Nabokov's Supranational Metonymy -- Dick's Cosmological Codex -- Epilogue. Reading Totality
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (viii, 183 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009168366
DOI:	10.1017/9781009168366