Zena Meadowsong

Narrative Machine (eBook, PDF)

The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Narrative Machine advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429651786
• Artikelnr.: 54673808

Autorenporträt

Zena Meadowsong is an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster Chapter 1: Zola's monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser
Crane
Moore
Wharton
and Gissing Part 2. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce's utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf
Hemingway
and Proust Part 3. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard
Vonnegut
and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec

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Introduction Part 1. Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster Chapter 1: Zola's monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing Part 2. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce's utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust Part 3. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec

Rezensionen

"Meadowsong has written a seductive book. As she revisits iconic passages of canonical texts, she offers such lucid and compelling insights that you feel as if you have known them all along." -Robin Blyn, University of West Florida.