Modernist futures : innovation and inheritance in the contemporary novel / David James
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript
xii, 224 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
'Advancing along the inherited path': making it traditionally new in Milan Kundera and Philip Roth -- 'The perfect state for a novel': Michael Ondaatje's Cubist imagination -- 'Spare prose and a spare, thrifty world': J.M. Coetzee's politics of minimalism -- 'The dead hand of modernism': Ian McEwan, reluctant impressionist -- 'License to strut': Toni Morrison and the ethics of virtuosity