Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction

by Philip M. Weinstein

Book Overview

Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the narrative props that support the drama of coming to know are refused. When space turns uncanny rather than lawful, when time ceases to be linear and progressive, objects and others become unfamiliar. So does the subject seeking to know them. Weinstein...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801489733
• ISBN13: 9780801489730
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher