Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

ISBN: 9781139534444 出版年：2012 页码：238 David James Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgements Introduction: contemporary fiction and the promise of modernism 1. 'Advancing along the inherited path': making it traditionally new in Milan Kundera and Philip Roth 2. 'The perfect state for a novel': Michael Ondaatje's Cubist imagination 3. 'Spare prose and a spare, thrifty world': J. M. Coetzee's politics of minimalism 4. 'The dead hand of modernism': Ian McEwan, reluctant impressionist 5. 'License to strut': Toni Morrison and the ethics of virtuosity Notes.