A Sense of Shock - The Impact of Impressionism on Modern British and Irish Writing

Zusatztext A Sense of Shock is, as its title suggests, a bold, inevitable book. Never before has literary impressionism been dissected with such precision and-even more dazzlingly-such imagination. The connections between this too-often slighted art and its historical circumstances (anarchism, terrorism, nationalism, feminism, homosexuality) are shown to end nowhere, making it impossible to conceive of impressionism merely as an aesthetic procedure. Adam Parkes is as robust, as myriad-minded, as his subject, and he has written a book not just for scholars, not just for writers, but for anyone interested in language as an ongoing force in our lives. Informationen zum Autor Adam Parkes is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Modernism and the Theater of Censorship (OUP 1996). Klappentext A Sense of Shock examines the various, complex relations between impressionist texts and contexts in modern British and Irish works by Bowen, Conrad, Ford, James, Wilde, Woolf, and others, to argue that literary impressionism was an emphatically historical phenomenon. Zusammenfassung A Sense of Shock examines the various, complex relations between impressionist texts and contexts in modern British and Irish works by Bowen, Conrad, Ford, James, Wilde, Woolf, and others, to argue that literary impressionism was an emphatically historical phenomenon.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Parkes, Parkes Adam
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2011
• EAN: 9780195383812
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538381-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; English, ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Impressionism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism