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Zusatztext In Out of Context, Bronstein compares modern and contemporary novels, focusing on formal literary elements. The introduction and first chapter explore how past authors influence future authors, particularly the ways contemporary authors have adapted modernist experiments. In the chapters that follow, Bronstein pairs authors, showing how literary techniques could be employed in new ways. []The brief comparative analyses throughout Out of Context are insightful and beautifully contextualized, showing that literary techniques can be employed by writers in different circumstances for different rhetorical purposes. Summing Up: Highly recommended Informationen zum Autor Michaela Bronstein is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. Klappentext Out of Context disrupts the notion of static context, instead proposing a transhistorical approach to literature, revealing that the significance of literature is in its moments of surprising reception. Zusammenfassung Out of Context disrupts the notion of static context, instead proposing a transhistorical approach to literature, revealing that the significance of literature is in its moments of surprising reception. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One: Rescue Work: Innovation and Continuity in Modernist Fiction Chapter Two: Character and Identity Chapter Three: What Chronology Demands of Us Chapter Four: Needing to Narrate Chapter Five: Modernism Today, or, The Author Becomes a Character Works Cited
