Matz The Modern Novel

A Short Introduction
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77702-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Literature

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in thetwentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as aliterary form.
* * A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel inthe twentieth century.
* Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction,including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, theglobal novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel.
* Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, howto enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, aswell as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the moredifficult forms of modern fiction
* Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and totheoretical debates among novelists.
* Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as itwas a hundred years ago.
* Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions ofthe nature and purpose of modern fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matz, Jesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Modern How?.
1 When and Why: The Rise of the Modern Novel.
2 "What is Reality?": The New Questions.
3 New Forms: Reshaping the Novel.
4 New Difficulties.
5 Regarding the Real World: Politics.
6 Questioning the Modern: Mid-Century Revisions.
7 Postmodern Replenishments.
8 Postcolonial Modernity.
Conclusions.
Notes.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jesse Matz is Assistant Professor at Kenyon College. He is the author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (2001) and winner of Harvard University's Roslyn Abramson prize for excellence in teaching.