AuthorJames, David, 1979-
TitleModernist 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


SUBJECT

  1. Modernism (Literature)
  2. Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  3. Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
  4. Postcolonialism in literature

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