The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

by Morag Shiach

Book Overview

The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns which unite modernist fiction. They also show how modernist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521670748
• ISBN13: 9780521670746
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"