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Hardcover The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism Book
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ISBN: 1032645938

ISBN13: 9781032645933

The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism

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Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of 'symptomatic' or 'subtextual' reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography...

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