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" The modernist short story : "
Dominic Head.
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BL
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1041406
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b795776
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Main Entry
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Head, Dominic.
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Title & Author
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The modernist short story : : a study in theory and practice /\ Dominic Head.
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Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1992.
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xii, 241 pages ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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0521104211
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: 0521412366
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: 9780521104210
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: 9780521412360
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
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Abstract
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The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigorous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. A chapter on Wyndham Lewis explores the use of the form to enact the aesthetics of Vorticism, resulting in the impasse of isolationism in its view of the individual. By contrast, Malcolm Lowry's stories are shown as offering a means of transcending this, in their very different treatment of the individual's experience. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.
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Subject
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Englisch, ...
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941
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Joyce, James.
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Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
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Lewis, Wyndham.
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Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957
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Lowry, Malcolm.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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Woolf, Virginia.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Short stories, English-- History and criticism.
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Short story.
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Modernisme (Littérature)-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Nouvelle.
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Nouvelles anglaises-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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English fiction.
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Kurzgeschichte
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Littérature anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Moderne
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Modernisme (littérature)-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Nouvelle anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Nouvelle.
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Nouvelles anglaises-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Short stories, English.
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Short story.
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Short story.
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Geschichte 1910-1960.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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Dewey Classification
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823/.01091
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LC Classification
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PR829.H43 1992
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NLM classification
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HG 690rvk
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HM 1360rvk
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HN 1360rvk
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