The late modernist novel : a critique of global narrative reason /

More than a world made, the novel is an instrument of world-making. The subject matter it curates from everyday life-its disproportionate focus on, say, the terrors of growing up or fantasies of marrying up-announces (and reinforces) a given collective's preoccupations. Though usually read in q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Im, Seo Hee (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Literature and society > History > 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Constructing Totality
Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability
Beckett's Hoarding
Nabokov's Supranational Metonymy
Dick's Cosmological Codex
Epilogue. Reading Totality.