224 records matched your query       

Author:

Sayeau, Michael Douglas, 1976- author.

Title:

Against the event : the everyday and the evolution of modernist narrative / Michael Sayeau.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 264 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Modernism (Literature)
Flaubert, Gustave,--1821-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
Wells, H. G.--(Herbert George),--1866-1946--Criticism and interpretation.
Conrad, Joseph,--1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: In the anteroom of the event -- "The future was a dark corridor": Flaubert's Madame Bovary, the everday, and style -- The "odd consequence" of progress: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the fin de si©·cle everday -- "His occupation would be gone": unemployment and time in Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- Joyce's anti-epiphanies: the atomic form of fiction.

ISBN:

0199681252
9780199681259

OCLC:

(OCoLC)841671969

LCCN:

2013474640

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)