دانلود کتاب Modernist Futures: Innovation And Inheritance In The Contemporary Novel

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MODERNIST FUTURES
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contemporary fiction and the promise of modernism
MODERNIST FORM NOW
LATE MODERNIST INSTITUTIONS AND POSTMODERN INTERRUPTIONS
‘GETTING BEYOND INFLUENCE’: ON IMPIETY AND ADAPTATION
‘A BRIDGE WITH THE PAST’: DIALOGUES AND DEPARTURES
‘CRITICALLY, CONSTRUCTIVELY, RE-CONSTRUCTIVELY:’ READING MODERNIST FUTURES
CHAPTER 1: ‘Advancing along the inherited path’: Making it traditionally new in Milan Kundera and Philip Roth
MAKING IT SERIOUS IN THE LEAST LIKELY WAY
INNOVATION AFTER ‘ESTABLISHMENT MODERNISM’
‘THE ANTERIOR EXPERIENCE OF THE NOVEL’: MODERNISM AS A USABLE PAST
PRACTICING ANTI-MODERN MODERNISM
CHAPTER 2: ‘The perfect state for a novel’: Michael Ondaatje’s Cubist imagination
RECONJURING CUBISM
COLLAGE AS CRAFT AND CRITICISM
AN UNFINISHED MOMENT?
CLAUSAL CUBISM
CONFLICT-ZONE CUBISM: COMPASSIONATE IMPERSONALITY
BEYOND MIRROR IMAGES
CHAPTER 3: ‘Spare prose and a spare, thrifty world’: J. M. Coetzee’s politics of minimalism
BY THRIFTY DESIGN
WRITING FOR A SPARE WORLD
ON FRUGALITY AND FORM
‘A SENSUOUS DELIGHT’: ABSORBING BECKETT
MODERNIST REPOSSESSIONS
CHAPTER 4: \'The dead hand of modernism’: Ian McEwan, reluctant impressionist
RELUCTANCE AND AFTER
AUTONOMY AND INSTRUMENTALISM
ACCOUNTABLE IMPRESSIONS
‘MODERNISTS HAVE THEIR USES AFTER ALL’: IMPRESSIONS OF TRAGIC TIME
IN THE THEATRE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER 5: ‘License to strut’: Toni Morrison and the ethics of virtuosity
‘NOT LIKE’: READING MORRISON BEYOND INFLUENCE
POSSESSION AND ALOOFNESS
CRYSTALLISATION AND UNDERTOW
‘TO HAVE THE READER WORK’: DIFFICULTY AND PARTICIPATION
MODERNISMS HELD IN RESERVE
Notes
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. ADVANCING ALONG THE INHERITED PATH
CHAPTER 2. THE PERFECT STATE FOR A NOVEL
CHAPTER 3. SPARE PROSE AND A SPARE, THRIFTY WORLD
CHAPTER 4. THE DEAD HAND OF MODERNISM
CHAPTER 5. LICENSE TO STRUT
Index