The reader in modernist fiction /
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 unfort...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Modernist Hieroglyphics and the Implicated Reader
- 1. From James to Conrad and Ford: Suppressed Narratives, Subaltern Reading, and the Drama of Interpretation
- 2. The Fate of Reading in the Work of Joyce: Illusion, Demystification, Sexuality
- 3. "Books Were Not in Their Line": The Use and Abuse of Reading in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
- 4. The Dangers of Reading from Edith Wharton to Ralph Ellison
- 5. Reading Ruins: From Modernism to the Illegible Texts of Postmodernism and Beyond
- Conclusion: The Stories of Modern Fiction, the End(s) of Misreading, and the Other Reader’s Response.