M. Latham

A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism (eBook, PDF)

Rewriting Mrs Dalloway

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137490803
• Artikelnr.: 43082229

Autorenporträt

Monica Latham is a Senior Lecturer of British literature at the English Department of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism. She has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is also the co-editor of the series Book Practices and Textual Itineraries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons' 2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage 3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection 4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators 5 The Artful Ornament of Ordinariness Notes Bibliography Index

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Introduction 1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons' 2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage 3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection 4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators 5 The Artful Ornament of Ordinariness Notes Bibliography Index