The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice

by Dominic Head

Book Overview

The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigourous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521104211
• ISBN13: 9780521104210
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"