Genre and Extravagance in the Novel - Lower Frequencies

Examines the form of the novel, capaciously defined and across its history, exploring the interplay of conformity and experimentation in classic and outlier examples of the genre, with a focus on Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Genre and Extravagance


• 2: When the Exception is the Rule


• 3: Textual Indigence in the Archive


• 4: Fairy Tale Epic


• 5: Vessels of Consciousness


• 6: Armed With Madness


• 7: Ruminant Curiosity


• 8: Nietzsche in the Nursery

About the author

Jed Rasula is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. He is author of nine scholarly books and three books of poetry, as well as co-editor of two anthologies. His research focuses on modernism across the arts, jazz history, modern and contemporary poetry, eco-poetics, and esoteric language practices.

Summary

Examines the form of the novel, capaciously defined and across its history, exploring the interplay of conformity and experimentation in classic and outlier examples of the genre, with a focus on Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf.

Additional text

Rasula delights in paradox, wordplay, and rhetorical flourishes

Product details

• Authors: Jed Rasula, Jed (Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Profess Rasula, Rasula Jed
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2021
• EAN: 9780192897763
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289776-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, 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