{"product_id":"modernist-futures-innovation-and-inheritance-in-the-contemporary-novel-hardback-9781107022478","title":"Modernist Futures; Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel (Hardback) 9781107022478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModernist Futures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInnovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines what innovation means to novelists today by reading their work in dialogue with the modernist tradition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid James (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107022478, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 August 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e238 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book bridges what James calls the traditional incompatibilities between close reading and cultural analysis, and envisions a future for the not-yet-complete promise of modernism.\" \u003cbr\u003e  --Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. By rethinking critical and disciplinary parameters, James brings scholarship on contemporary fiction into dialogue with modernist studies, offering a nuanced account of narrative strategies that sheds new light on the form of the novel today. An ambitious and incisive contribution to the field, this book will appeal especially to scholars of modernism and contemporary literary culture as well as those in American and postcolonial studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: contemporary fiction and the promise of modernism\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'Advancing along the inherited path': making it traditionally new in Milan Kundera and Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'The perfect state for a novel': Michael Ondaatje's Cubist imagination\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Spare prose and a spare, thrifty world': J. M. Coetzee's politics of minimalism\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'The dead hand of modernism': Ian McEwan, reluctant impressionist\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'License to strut': Toni Morrison and the ethics of virtuosity\u003cbr\u003e Notes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265500762392,"sku":"9781107022478","price":73.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107022478i.jpg?v=1692023517","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modernist-futures-innovation-and-inheritance-in-the-contemporary-novel-hardback-9781107022478","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}