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The formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to further innovation. Focusing on the experience of the reader in engaging with a selection of these works from around the globe, this book argues that a rigorous attention to formal features is crucial in appreciating their achievement and in understanding the impact of the early modernists on the history of the novel. Joyce's Ulysses is given particular attention for its feats of formal invention and as an inspiration for many later writers. Among the facets of modernist writing explored are the separation of content and form, the transgression of linguistic boundaries, the defiance of lexical and syntactic rules, the deployment realist techniques to present the unreal, the political significance of literary form, and the relation between formal innovation and affect.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Experience of Form: Joyce and After
1. Modernist Style in the Making: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Ulysses and the Question of Modernist Form
3. Nonlexical Onomatopoeia: Hearing the Noises of Ulysses
4. Joycean Pararealism: How to Read 'Circe'
5. After Finnegans Wake: Caryl Churchill's The Skriker
6. The Event of Reading: Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
7. Multilingualism and Translation: W. F. Hermans's Nooit meer slapen
8. Afrikaans Modernism and the Anglophone Reader: Etienne van Heerden's 30 nagte in Amsterdam
9. Crossings of Place and Time: Zoë Wicomb's Fiction
10. Form and Content: Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries
11. Reading and Choice: Ali Smith's How to Be Both and Marlene van Niekerk's Memorandum
12. Formal Innovation and Affect in the Contemporary Irish Novel: Kevin Barry, Mike McCormack, and Eimear McBride
13. Form, Politics, and Postcolonial Fiction: Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
14. Joycean Innovation Today: Tom McCarthy's Fiction
Works Cited
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