Modernist Futures

Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

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David James

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In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. By rethinking critical and disciplinary parameters, James brings scholarship on contemporary fiction into dialogue with modernist studies, offering a nuanced account of narrative strategies that sheds new light on the form of the novel today. An ambitious and incisive contribution to the field, this book will appeal especially to scholars of modernism and contemporary literary culture as well as those in American and postcolonial studies.

Author Biography:

David James is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Nottingham. Author of Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception (2008), his articles have appeared in such venues as Modernism/Modernity, The Journal of Modern Literature and Textual Practice. He is editor of The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction (2011).

Release date Australia

August 27th, 2012

Author

David James

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

238

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9781107022478

Product ID

19494891

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