Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism - Rewriting Mrs Dalloway

Informationen zum Autor Monica Latham is a Senior Lecturer of British literature at the English Department of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism. She has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is also the co-editor of the series Book Practices and Textual Itineraries. Klappentext This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy! by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update! this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf. Zusammenfassung This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy! by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update! this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons' 2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage 3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection 4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators 5 The Artful Ornament of Ordinariness Notes Bibliography Index

List of contents

Introduction 1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons' 2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage 3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection 4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators 5 The Artful Ornament of Ordinariness Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: M Latham, M. Latham, Monica Latham, Monica Latham Latham
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349504404
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50440-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy