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Microscopy, magnification and modernist fiction : micro-modernism from Hardy to Beckett /

"Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations between m...

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Main Author:	Armstrong, Patrick (English teacher) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Subjects:	Lawrence, D. H. > (David Herbert), > 1885-1930 > Criticism and interpretation. Proust, Marcel, > 1871-1922 > Criticism and interpretation. Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation. Beckett, Samuel, > 1906-1989 > Criticism and interpretation. Modernism (Literature) Microscopy in literature. Optics in literature. Modernisme (Littérature) Optique dans la littérature. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

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