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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Modernist fiction"”.
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
<p>This dissertation explores the relationship between narrative modes in cinema and literature and adopts the lineage laid out by Lukács that connects the oral tradition and epic poetry to the novel. I attach art cinema to this lineage and seek to justify its position as an equally significant …
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
… shock experiences of the microscopic in prose fiction. Focusing on microscopes and the unfamiliar microworlds they reveal, I illustrate ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of what the world is like. I read for the vertigo of microscopic …
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Publishing short stories : British modernist fiction and the literary marketplace
… was the most profitable literary form for most fiction-writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries because it was quick to write, relative to novels, marketable to a wide variety of periodicals, and able to be re-sold, in groups, for book collections. While the majority of …
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The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship
… visible in many works of American modernist fiction and the modern myth of the self-made man. I contend that the historical and cultural forces which shaped both phenomena in the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries are not incidental but integral to the …
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Katherine Mansfield and Visual Culture
The relationship between modernist fiction and visual culture has received substantial critical attention in recent years. However, many of the studies on this intermediality focus primarily on the drama, poetry, and novels of male authors, with Virginia Woolf being the only significant exception …
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William Styron: three studies of compositional method
… of his role as a shaping force in post-modernist fiction has resulted in the production of a large body of published work: a full-scale descriptive primary bibliography and an extensive annotated secondary one; a collection of recent Styron criticism; and two published casebooks that …
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"To claim voice": The Discourses of Impoverished Children in the Great Depression
… children, the voice of the impoverished child in modernist fiction of the Great Depression demands a different type of response as the reader experiences an experimental modernism that is, at once, as political and complicated as highly sentimental images. The fictional construction of the poor …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… metaphors in early twentieth-century English fiction, exploring how one of the most powerfully enduring colonial tropes about the savage Other seeped into the literary imagination of English-language authors and informed much of their imagery. I read cannibalism as a complicated trope: as both …