{"product_id":"strange-likeness-dora-zhang-9780226722528","title":"Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel","description":"The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description-what Virginia Woolf called \"that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.\" As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that descriptive practices were in fact a crucial site of attention and experimentation for a number of early modernist writers, centrally Woolf, Henry James, and Marcel Proust. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Description is the novelistic technique charged with establishing a common world, but in the early twentieth century, there was little agreement about how a common world could be known and represented. Zhang argues that the protagonists in her study responded by shifting description away from visualizing objects to revealing relations-social, formal, and experiential-between disparate phenomena. In addition to shedding new light on some of the best-known works of modernism, Zhang opens up new ways of thinking about description more broadly. She moves us beyond the classic binary of narrate-or-describe and reinvigorates our thinking about the novel. \u003ci\u003eStrange Likeness\u003c\/i\u003e will enliven conversations around narrative theory, affect theory, philosophy and literature, and reading practices in the academy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dora Zhang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022672252X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226722528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Dora Zhang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990795223295,"sku":"9780226722528","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a35bdc17-da8d-416a-8cf1-48f0027c0ebb.jpg?v=1683306730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strange-likeness-dora-zhang-9780226722528","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}