Daniel R. Schwarz

The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-09705-0
• 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781349097050
• ISBN-10: 1349097055
• Artikelnr.: 44459472

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: "I was the world in which I walked" - the tranformation of the British novel; the narrator as character in Hardy's major fiction; beginnings and endings in Hardy's major fiction; speaking of Paul Morel - voice, unity and meaning in "Sons and Lovers"; Lawrence's quest in "The Rainbow"; the originality of E.M.Forster. Part 2: the case for humanistic formalism; modes of literary inquiry - a primer for humanistic formalism; reading Conrad's "Lord Jim" - reading text, reading lives; "tell us in plain words" - an introduction to reading Joyce's "Ulysses"; reading Virginia Woolf - "Mrs Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse".