Modern Novel - A Short Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Jesse Matz is Assistant Professor at Kenyon College. He is the author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (2001) and winner of Harvard University's Roslyn Abramson prize for excellence in teaching. Klappentext For at least 100 years now, novelists have experimented with ways to make fiction "modern", to make it better able to reflect and resist the perils and pleasures of modernity. This book looks at how they have done so, tracing the evolution of the modern novel through the twentieth century, and providing a framework through which readers of all kinds can appreciate the significance of the genre. Zusammenfassung * A jargon--free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. * Examines the main strands of twentieth--century fiction! including post--war! post--imperial and multicultural fiction! the global novel! the digital novel and the post--realist novel.

Product details

• Authors: Matz, Jesse Matz, Jesse (Kenyon College) Matz
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2003
• EAN: 9781405100496
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-0049-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature; Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature; Blackwell Introductions to Lit; Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature; Blackwell Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies