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- catalog abstract "The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigorous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. A chapter on Wyndham Lewis explores the use of the form to enact the aesthetics of Vorticism, resulting in the impasse of isolationism in its view of the individual. By contrast, Malcolm Lowry's stories are shown as offering a means of transcending this, in their very different treatment of the individual's experience. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.".
- catalog contributor b3710499.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigorous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. A chapter on Wyndham Lewis explores the use of the form to enact the aesthetics of Vorticism, resulting in the impasse of isolationism in its view of the individual. By contrast, Malcolm Lowry's stories are shown as offering a means of transcending this, in their very different treatment of the individual's experience. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.".
- catalog description "The short story: theories and definitions. -- James Joyce: the non-epiphany principle. -- Virginia Woolf: experiments in genre. -- Katherine Mansfield: the impersonal short story. -- Wyndham Lewis: the Vorticist short story. -- Malcolm Lowry: expanding circles. -- Conclusion: contemporary issues.".
- catalog extent "xii, 241 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521412366 (hardback)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.01091 20".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "PR829 .H43 1992".
- catalog subject "Short stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Short story.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The short story: theories and definitions. -- James Joyce: the non-epiphany principle. -- Virginia Woolf: experiments in genre. -- Katherine Mansfield: the impersonal short story. -- Wyndham Lewis: the Vorticist short story. -- Malcolm Lowry: expanding circles. -- Conclusion: contemporary issues.".
- catalog title "The modernist short story : a study in theory and practice / Dominic Head.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".