Out of Context - The Uses of Modernist Fiction

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Michaela Bronstein is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Michaela Bronstein's account of Conrad's impact on America's Faulkner or Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the single most compelling account I have read of 'influence' in a lifetime of reading. Intricately conversant with Anglophone writers from many geographies and carrying out tour de force feats of stylistic analysis, the book founds a new method of transhistorical literary studies. Its pages seem to announce the coming of a new school of literary thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Michaela Bronstein, Michaela (Assistant English Professor Bronstein
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780197527009
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752700-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu; MODERNIST LITERATURE AND CULTURE SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form