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

by Derek Attridge

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399512463
• ISBN13: 9781399512466
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages