Forms of Modern British Fiction

Published by University of Texas Press 1975

Forms of Modern British Fiction

Edited by: Alan Warren Friedman

In the series Symposia in the Arts and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.7560/724143

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In Forms of Modern British Fiction six individualistic and strongminded critics delineate the "age of modernism" in British fiction. Dating the age and the movement from later Hardy works through the deaths of Joyce and Woolf, they present British fiction as a cohesive, self-contained unit of literary history.

Hardy appears as the first of the modern British novelists, Lawrence as the central, and Joyce and Woolf as the last. The writers and the modern movement are framed by precursors, such as Galsworthy, and by successors, Durrell, Beckett, and Henry Green—the postmoderns. The pattern of the essays suggests a growing self-consciousness on the part of twentieth-century writers as they seek not only to refine their predecessors but also to deny (and sometimes obliterate) them. The moderns thus deny the novel itself, a genre once firmly rooted in history and forms of social life. Their works do not assume that comfortable mimetic relationship between the fictive realities of art and life.

Consequently, there has now evolved a poetics of the novel that is virtually identifiable with modern fiction, a poetics still highly problematical in its attempt to denote a medium in whose name eclectic innovativeness and incessant revitalizing are proclaimed. Forms of Modern British Fiction refines and advances the discussion of the modern novel and the world it and we inhabit.

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Alan Warren Friedman is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One. The Once and Future Age of Modernism: An Introduction Alan Warren Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Two. Ethical Structures in John Galsworthy, Elizabeth Bowen, and Iris Murdoch James Gindin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Three. Fiction and Repetition: Tess of the d’Urbervilles J. Hillis Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Four. D. H. Lawrence’s Dualism: The Apollonian- Dionysian Polarity and The Ladybird James C. Cowan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Five. Stephen Dedalus and the Spiritual-Heroic Refrigerating Apparatus: Art and Life in Joyce’s Portrait Charles Rossman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Six. Virginia Woolf: Tradition and Modernity Avrom Fleishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Seven. Fiction at the Edge of Poetry: Durrell, Beckett, Green John Unterecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Appendix: A Panel Discussion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Copyright year: 1975
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256

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Published: July 29, 2014
ISBN: 9780292772816