The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

ISBN: 9781139181235 出版年：2011 页码：302 David James Cambridge University Press

Introduction: mapping modernist continuities David James Part I. Early Legacies: Inheriting Modernism at Mid-Century and Beyond: 1. Not what it used to be: nostalgia and the legacies of modernism Randall Stevenson 2. H. E. Bates, regionalism and late modernism Dominic Head 3. Moving beyond modernism in the fiction of B. S. Johnson: charting influences and comparisons Philip Tew Part II. Modernist Aesthetics in Transition: Character, Perception, Innovation: 4. Thinking in literature: modernism and contemporary neuroscience Patricia Waugh 5. Autonomous automata: opacity and the fugitive character in the modernist novel and after Julia Jordan 6. Pseudo-Impressionism? Jesse Matz 7. 'Advancing along the inherited path': Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and the idea of being traditionally new David James Part III. Reassessing the Ethics of Modernist Fiction: 8. A complex legacy: modernity's uneasy discourse of ethics and responsibility Tim Woods 9. 'A renewed sense of difficulty': E. M. Forster, Iris Murdoch and Zadie Smith on ethics and form Andrzej Gasiorek 10. 'Myths of desire': D. H. Lawrence, language and ethics in A. S. Byatt's fiction Peter Preston Part IV. Modernism's Global Afterlives: 11. Fictions of global crisis Peter Middleton 12. Representing slums and home: Chris Abani's Graceland Susan Z. Andrade 13. For translation: Virginia Woolf, J. M. Coetzee and transnational comparison Rebecca L. Walkowitz Epilogue: finding the dreadfully real Adam Thorpe.