Modernist Short Fiction and Things by Gasston, Aimée

Modernist Short Fiction and Things (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030785468)

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Modernist Short Fiction and Things by Gasston, Aimée

Modernist Short Fiction and Things

$109.00
Modernist Short Fiction and Things by Gasston, Aimée

Modernist Short Fiction and Things

$109.00
Format: Paperback
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This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories' form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote.
Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.

Author: Aim馥 Gasston
ISBN-10: 3030785467
ISBN-13: 9783030785468
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2022
Pages: 227
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.51d
By Aim馥 Gasston
By Aim馥 Gasston
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Aim馥 Gasston is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Recipient of a Harry Ransom Fellowship and the fourth Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize, she co-edited Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (2020) and is Vice-Chair of the Elizabeth Bowen Society.

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