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Jesse Matz examines the writing of such modernists as Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf, who used the word impression to describe what they wanted their fiction to present. Matz redefines literary impressionism, focusing on the way that impressions destroy standard perceptual distinctions between thinking and sensing, believing and suspecting. He argues that these writers favored not immediate subjective sense, but rather a mode that would mediate perceptual distinctions. Just as impressions fall somewhere between thought and sense, impressionist fiction occupies the middle ground between opposite ways of engaging with the world. Matz also argues that the resulting confusion becomes a basic plot feature of modernist fiction. This wide-ranging study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied writers in the early decades of the twentieth century.

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Jesse Matz is assistant professor of English at Harvard University.
Release date Australia
August 2nd, 2001
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
290
Dimensions
152x229x21
ISBN-13
9780521803526
Product ID
1771959

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