Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel
Author:   Zena Meadowsong
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367664022


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
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Author:   Zena Meadowsong
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367664022


ISBN 10:   036766402
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1. Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster Chapter 1: Zola’s monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing Part 2. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce’s utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust Part 3. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec

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Meadowsong has written a seductive book. As she revisits iconic passages of canonical texts, she offers such lucid and compelling insights that you feel as if you have known them all along. -Robin Blyn, University of West Florida.


Meadowsong has written a seductive book. As she revisits iconic passages of canonical texts, she offers such lucid and compelling insights that you feel as if you have known them all along. -Robin Blyn, University of West Florida.


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Zena Meadowsong is an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University, USA.

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