The modernist novel : a critical introduction / / Stephen Kern [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457760903321
• Autore: Kern Stephen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-139-17979-9; 1-107-22190-0; 1-283-38255-5; 9786613382559; 1-139-18954-9; 0-511-86265-2; 1-139-18824-0; 1-139-19084-9; 1-139-18362-1; 1-139-18594-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809.3/9112
• Soggetti: Modernism (Literature)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Character; 2. Event; 3. Space; 4. Time; 5. Framework; 6. Text; 7. Narrator; Conclusion; Works cited; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the ; subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.