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03268aam a2200469 i 4500 001 1E24A42E78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200128t20202020ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020004310 020 $a 022672252X 020 $a 9780226722528 020 $a 022672249X 020 $a 9780226722498 035 $a (OCoLC)1140353839 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d EAU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3365 $b .Z47 2020 082 00 $a 808.3 $2 23 100 1 $a Zhang, Dora, $e author. 245 10 $a Strange likeness : $b description and the modernist novel / $c Dora Zhang. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 246 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Thinking literature 520 $a "The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description-what Virginia Woolf called an "ugly, clumsy, 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 twentieth-century 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. The book will enliven conversations around affect theory, philosophy and literature, and reading practices in the academy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-236) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- "That Ugly, That Clumsy, That Incongruous Tool" -- Toward a Theory of Description -- James's Airs -- Proust and the Effects of Analogy -- Feeling with Woolf -- The Ends of Description. 600 10 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Proust, Marcel, $d 1871-1922 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00028686 600 17 $a Proust, Marcel, $d 1871-1922. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031804 600 17 $a Woolf, Virginia, $d 1882-1941. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00033879 650 0 $a Fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Description (Rhetoric) 650 7 $a Description (Rhetoric) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891119 650 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923709 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Thinking literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E24A42E78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search