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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"The Modernist Novel"”.
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Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
The cultural forms of modernity become truly modern only when specific experience, as opposed to tradition or faith, is made the basis of epistemological authority. By taking the primary examples of law and literature, this thesis argues that the criminal trial and realist novel of the eighteenth …
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QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel
… changed,” prompting her to call for a change in the way novelists depicted character. I study one such character, Queen Victoria, to trace how Woolf and James Joyce reimagined how to depict a historical figure in a novel. What is Queen Victoria in the Modernist novel and why does she begin to …
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
This dissertation uses the methodological lens of book history to re-examine the role of the literary market in the construction of modernist authorship in American culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to …
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
"""Selling Out: The American Literary Marketplace and the Modernist Novel"" re­examines the ""modernist author"" we think we know by rereading how four American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation …
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Henry James, Virginia Woolf, And Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness, Time, And Space In The Modernist Novel And The Home
During the Modernist period, generally defined between the years 1890 and 1945, artists were attempting to break away from previous forms and styles. For example, writers like Henry James and Virginia Woolf sought to change the novel by exploring the consciousness of characters, while playing with …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… dissertation offers a new way of conceptualizing the modernist Bildungsroman, one that accounts for the oft-noted incongruity between modernist experiment and the entrenched realism of the Victorian Bildungsroman. Specifically, I argue that modernist novels such as Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, D. …
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Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality
… and propose a resolution to modernism in the form of the thought and literature of GK Chesterton. Chesterton, whilst constantly touted as either a harmless kind of literary clown or as a Christian crypto-fascist, has largely been ignored within all serious academic discourse. Therefore, …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
This thesis proposes a new way to encounter the fiction of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen through the lens of talk. I use the term ‘talk’ to define and theorize a liminal category of expression in these texts, vacillating between the elevated, ineffable significance associated with …