Forms of Modernist Fiction: Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy

by Derek Attridge

The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to further innovation. Focusing on the experience of the reader in engaging with a selection of these works from around the globe, this book argues that a rigorous attention to formal features is crucial in appreciating their achievement and in understanding the impact of the early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399512455
• ISBN13: 9781399512459
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"