Unknowing - The Work of Modernist Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Philip Weinstein taught at Harvard University and later at Swarthmore College where, since 1990, he has been Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English. Past president of the William Faulkner Society (2000-2003), he has written three books on Faulkner: The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995), What Else But Love? (1996), and Becoming Faulkner (2010), which won the 2010 Hugh Holman Award as the best book on Southern culture. In addition to his work on Faulkner, Weinstein has published widely on modern European fiction. Klappentext The book proceeds by framing modernist unknowing between prior practices of realist knowing, on the one hand, and, on the other, certain later practices - postmodern and postcolonial - that move beyond knowing altogether. In so doing, Weinstein proposes a metahistory of the Western novel, from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison. Zusammenfassung Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the narrative props that support the drama of coming to...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Philip Weinstein, Philip M. Weinstein, Philip Weinstein Weinstein
• Edition: Cornell University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 26.09.2005
• EAN: 9780801489730
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8973-0
• Pages: 320
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises