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A poetics of postmodernism and neomodernism : rewriting Mrs Dalloway /

"Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, one of the most significant modernist texts from the Western literary canon, has spawned numerous contemporary offspring. Contemporary authors have dialogued with it, challenged it, reinvented it and offered creative responses to it, thus reinforcing its acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Latham, Monica (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941. > Mrs. Dalloway.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Influence.
Postmodernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Poetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf, Virginia)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons'2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators5 The Artful Ornament of OrdinarinessNotesBibliographyIndex.