Rhythmic Modernism: Mimesis and the Short Story

Author:   Dr. Helen Rydstrand (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9781501343414


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   24 January 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dr. Helen Rydstrand (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9781501343414


ISBN 10:   1501343416
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   24 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introducing Rhythmic Mimesis 1. Rhythm and Mimesis in Modernist Literary Culture 2. D. H. Lawrence's Cosmic Rhythms 3. Katherine Mansfield and the Rhythms of Habit 4. Virginia Woolf, Rhythm and the World as Work of Art Conclusion Bibliography Index

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This original and compelling book treats the centrality of rhythm - as a phenomenon, a methodology and a philosophy - in the short fiction of three significant modernist writers: D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. In its wide-ranging and layered treatment of 'rhythmic mimesis', the book takes us from the thermodynamic to the sonic and the social without neglecting the rhythms of the literary archive at its heart. * Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK, , and author of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945 (2014) *


This original and compelling book treats the centrality of rhythm - as a phenomenon, a methodology and a philosophy - in the short fiction of three significant modernist writers: D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. In its wide-ranging and layered treatment of 'rhythmic mimesis', the book takes us from the thermodynamic to the sonic and the social without neglecting the rhythms of the literary archive at its heart. * Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, King's College London, UK, , and author of Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945 (2014) * Rhythmic Modernism arrives at the perfect moment. The author wishes to explore how all of the talk of rhythm in the early twentieth century was adopted by some of the key modernist writers as something like a personal artistic credo, and then, how it made its way into the content and form of their works. It is beautifully written and organized. It's a book on rhythm with a clear and defined rhythm of its own... Rhythmic Modernism is a very fine work. * Enda Duffy, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (2009) * Overall, Rydstrand's reading of Lawrence, Mansfield, and Woolf is a remarkable contribution to many fields: modernist studies, narrative theory, the history of the short story, and rhythmic studies. Her book deserves a wide readership and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in modernist fiction and the study of rhythm in general. * Affirmations: of the modern * Engrossing, scholarly ... Rydstrand's innovative study of these three modernist, yet very different, writers and their short stories reveals a marked prominence in the use of rhythm and mimesis in their fiction. * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *


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Helen Rydstrand is Adjunct Associate Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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