Forms of Modernist Fiction: Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy 9781399512473
Innovative literary form examined from the point of view of the reader’s experience Invites a reconsideration of the imp
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Experience of Form: Joyce and After
1. Modernist Style in the Making: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Ulysses and the Question of Modernist Form
3. Nonlexical Onomatopoeia: Hearing the Noises of Ulysses
4. Joycean Pararealism: How to Read ‘Circe’
5. After Finnegans Wake: Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker
6. The Event of Reading: Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable
7. Multilingualism and Translation: W. F. Hermans’ Nooit meer slapen
8. Afrikaans Modernism and the Anglophone Reader: Etienne van Heerden’s 30 nagte in Amsterdam
9. Crossings of Place and Time: Zoë Wicomb’s Fiction
10. Form and Content: Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
11. Reading and Choice: Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Marlene van Niekerk’s Memorandum
12. Formal Innovation and Affect in the Contemporary Irish Novel: Kevin Barry, Mike McCormack, and Eimear McBride
13. Form, Politics, and Postcolonial Fiction: Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
14. Joycean Innovation Today: Tom McCarthy’s Fiction
Works Cited
Index
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Experience of Form: Joyce and After
1. Modernist Style in the Making: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Ulysses and the Question of Modernist Form
3. Nonlexical Onomatopoeia: Hearing the Noises of Ulysses
4. Joycean Pararealism: How to Read ‘Circe’
5. After Finnegans Wake: Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker
6. The Event of Reading: Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable
7. Multilingualism and Translation: W. F. Hermans’ Nooit meer slapen
8. Afrikaans Modernism and the Anglophone Reader: Etienne van Heerden’s 30 nagte in Amsterdam
9. Crossings of Place and Time: Zoë Wicomb’s Fiction
10. Form and Content: Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
11. Reading and Choice: Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Marlene van Niekerk’s Memorandum
12. Formal Innovation and Affect in the Contemporary Irish Novel: Kevin Barry, Mike McCormack, and Eimear McBride
13. Form, Politics, and Postcolonial Fiction: Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
14. Joycean Innovation Today: Tom McCarthy’s Fiction
Works Cited
Index
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