Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415285438)

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on:

• forms of realism
• characters and consciousness
• gender and the novel
• time and history.

An understanding of these three thinkers is fundamental to a grasp on modernism, making this an indispensable guide for students of modernist thought. It is also essential reading for those who wish to understand debates about the genre of the novel or the nature of literary expression, which were given a new impetus by the pioneering figures of Joyce, Richardson and Woolf.

Author: Deborah Parsons
ISBN-10: 0415285437
ISBN-13: 9780415285438
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.14w x 0.41d