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"Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature"--"The period 1900-1940 produced revolutionary developments in science and the arts. The rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 undercut the popular notion that the values and character traits of parents blend in offspring and are transmitted directly to them. In The Interpretation of Dreams of 1900 Sigmund Freud laid the foundation for his theory of the mind as a network of unconscious processes and the residue of childhood psychosexual experience. Also in 1900, the introduction of Planck's constant to explain the spectra of radiating bodies was the first blow to classical physics, leading to a major elaboration of quantum theory by 1927. Most unsettling was the theory's indeterminacy principle, which put knowledge of subatomic events on a probabilistic basis, thereby limiting the sort of deterministic causal knowledge that classical physics had posited throughout the universe. Albert Einstein's special relativity theory of 1905 maintained that space and time are not absolute and distinct but transform into one another. In 1908 Arnold Schoenberg composed music in no single tonal system, while in 1911 Wassily Kandinsky painted no recognizable objects. No single literary change was as revolutionary as these others. However, the sum of formal innovations in the novel was revolutionary in providing new ways of rendering how people experience personal development, courtship conventions, family relations, urban life, national identification, imperial conquest, capitalist enterprise, liberal institutions, religious faith, and artistic creativity"--
目录
List of illustrations p. vii
List of tables p. viii
Acknowledgments p. ix
List of abbreviations p. x
Introduction p. 1
1 Character p. 21
Presence: conspicuous absence Conrad and Barnes and Woolf p. 21
Substance: concrete nothingness Sartre and Musil p. 24
Structure: blurring and fragmentation D枚blin and Stein p. 26
Stability: volatile egos Lawrence and Joyce and Gide p. 30
Stature: a new kind of hero Hemingway and Ford and Joyce p. 34
Purpose: Bildungsroman to K眉nstlerroman Dos Passos and Mann and Woolf and Joyce p. 40
2 Event p. 46
Scale: recalibrating the small and the large James and Proust and Joyce and Woolf p. 46
Causality: causal skepticism, mythic parallel, spatial patterning, chance Faulkner and Musil and Camus and Gide p. 56
Plot: anti-narrative Musil and Woolf and Joyce and Picasso p. 65
3 Space p. 75
Texture: dynamic voids Conrad and Forster and Kafka p. 76
Mental space: impressionism, free indirect discourse, stream of consciousness Ford and Conrad and Woolf and Schnitzler and Richardson and Faulkner and Joyce p. 81
Urban space: Wandering Rocks Dos Passos and Woolf and Joyce and Bely p. 93
4 Time p. 101
Orientation: valorizing the present Stein and Mann and Joyce and Lewis p. 101
Pace: faster, slower, multiple Musil and Proust and Woolf and Joyce p. 105
Continuity: broken watches in continuous time Mann and Joyce and Woolf and Faulkner and Conrad and Ford p. 109
Order: achrony, repetition, trauma, epiphany Musil and Proust and Faulkner and Conrad and Mann and Joyce and Stein p. 112
5 Framework p. 126
Beginning: in the middle of things Joyce and Kafka and Woolf and Ford and Faulkner and Rilke and Camus p. 126
Ending: resounding irresolution Gide and Lewis and Hemingway and Faulkner and Barnes and James and Lawrence p. 139
6 Text p. 153
Mechanics: coined words and stylized sentences Hemingway and Proust and Faulkner and Stein and Joyce p. 153
Language: illuminating opacity Hofmannsthal and Gide and Lawrence and Kafka and Proust and Joyce p. 157
Style: feminine, abstract, surreal, collagist Richardson and Woolf and Kandinsky and Lewis and Stein and Breton and Joyce and D枚blin p. 165
7 Narrator p. 179
Vision: singular, serial, parallel, embedded James and Conrad and Woolf and Gide p. 179
Voice: nonhuman, shifting, multiple, heteroglossia Faulkner and Richardson and Gide and Broch and Joyce p. 185
Knowledge: creative uncertainty Kafka and Bely and Conrad and Faulkner p. 195
Conclusion p. 202
Appendix: novels discussed in this book p. 216
Notes p. 221
Index p. 249
List of tables p. viii
Acknowledgments p. ix
List of abbreviations p. x
Introduction p. 1
1 Character p. 21
Presence: conspicuous absence Conrad and Barnes and Woolf p. 21
Substance: concrete nothingness Sartre and Musil p. 24
Structure: blurring and fragmentation D枚blin and Stein p. 26
Stability: volatile egos Lawrence and Joyce and Gide p. 30
Stature: a new kind of hero Hemingway and Ford and Joyce p. 34
Purpose: Bildungsroman to K眉nstlerroman Dos Passos and Mann and Woolf and Joyce p. 40
2 Event p. 46
Scale: recalibrating the small and the large James and Proust and Joyce and Woolf p. 46
Causality: causal skepticism, mythic parallel, spatial patterning, chance Faulkner and Musil and Camus and Gide p. 56
Plot: anti-narrative Musil and Woolf and Joyce and Picasso p. 65
3 Space p. 75
Texture: dynamic voids Conrad and Forster and Kafka p. 76
Mental space: impressionism, free indirect discourse, stream of consciousness Ford and Conrad and Woolf and Schnitzler and Richardson and Faulkner and Joyce p. 81
Urban space: Wandering Rocks Dos Passos and Woolf and Joyce and Bely p. 93
4 Time p. 101
Orientation: valorizing the present Stein and Mann and Joyce and Lewis p. 101
Pace: faster, slower, multiple Musil and Proust and Woolf and Joyce p. 105
Continuity: broken watches in continuous time Mann and Joyce and Woolf and Faulkner and Conrad and Ford p. 109
Order: achrony, repetition, trauma, epiphany Musil and Proust and Faulkner and Conrad and Mann and Joyce and Stein p. 112
5 Framework p. 126
Beginning: in the middle of things Joyce and Kafka and Woolf and Ford and Faulkner and Rilke and Camus p. 126
Ending: resounding irresolution Gide and Lewis and Hemingway and Faulkner and Barnes and James and Lawrence p. 139
6 Text p. 153
Mechanics: coined words and stylized sentences Hemingway and Proust and Faulkner and Stein and Joyce p. 153
Language: illuminating opacity Hofmannsthal and Gide and Lawrence and Kafka and Proust and Joyce p. 157
Style: feminine, abstract, surreal, collagist Richardson and Woolf and Kandinsky and Lewis and Stein and Breton and Joyce and D枚blin p. 165
7 Narrator p. 179
Vision: singular, serial, parallel, embedded James and Conrad and Woolf and Gide p. 179
Voice: nonhuman, shifting, multiple, heteroglossia Faulkner and Richardson and Gide and Broch and Joyce p. 185
Knowledge: creative uncertainty Kafka and Bely and Conrad and Faulkner p. 195
Conclusion p. 202
Appendix: novels discussed in this book p. 216
Notes p. 221
Index p. 249
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