Modernist futures : innovation and inheritance in the contemporary novel
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. 'Advancing along the inherited path' : making it traditionally new in Milan Kundera and Philip Roth
- 2. 'The perfect state for a novel' : Michael Ondaatje's Cubist imagination
- 3. 'Spare prose and a spare, thrifty world' : J. M. Coetzee's politics of minimalism
- 4. 'The dead hand of modernism' : Ian McEwan, reluctant impressionist
- 5. 'License to strut' : Toni Morrison and the ethics of virtuosity