The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice

by Dominic Head

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521104211

ISBN13:9780521104210

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.72 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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