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The Reader in Modernist Fiction

By Brian Richardson

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
139952836X, 9781399528368
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4471670 bytes)
Edition
87
Pages
224\217
Time added
2024-05-25 16:25:10

Description

Many major modernists – including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison – wrote central scenes describing characters reading. In most cases, the readers depicted suffer unfortunate fates. Intriguingly, the act of reading is also often intertwined with sexual activities. The Reader in Modernist Fiction analyses the construction of fictional readers, tracing their development and transformation over the first half of the twentieth century. Brian Richardson explores how the effects of reading are represented within modernist and postmodern fiction, and studies misreading as a personal limitation, sexual invitation, aesthetic allegory and ideological critique.

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