Narrative Machine - The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel

Narrative Machine advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1. Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster Chapter 1: Zola’s monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing Part 2. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce’s utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust Part 3. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec

About the author

Zena Meadowsong is an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University, USA.

Summary

Narrative Machine advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization.

Additional text

"Meadowsong has written a seductive book. As she revisits iconic passages of canonical texts, she offers such lucid and compelling insights that you feel as if you have known them all along." –Robin Blyn, University of West Florida.

Product details

• Authors: Zena Meadowsong
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138392458
• ISBN: 978-1-138-39245-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Narrative Theory and Culture; Narrative Theory and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Postmodernism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000