Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description--what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly,...
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Author: Dora Zhang
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Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel by Zhang, Dora

Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel

€64,21

Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel

€64,21
Author: Dora Zhang
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

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. Strange Likeness will enliven conversations around narrative theory, affect theory, philosophy and literature, and reading practices in the academy.

Author: Dora Zhang
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/22/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780226722528

About the Author
Dora Zhang is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

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