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9780521104210

The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice

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    9780521104210

  • ISBN10:

    0521104211

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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 of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
The short story: theories and definitions
James Joyce: the non-epiphany principle
Virginia Woolf: experiments in genre
Katherine Mansfield: the impersonal short story
Wyndham Lewis: the Vorticist short story
Malcolm Lowry: expanding circles
Conclusion: contemporary issues
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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