The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

Author:   Patrick Reilly
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138715318


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 December 2017
Format:   Hardback
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The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction


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"This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the ""dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts"", setting a theme of Dante's ""Inferno"" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that could be described as sadistic."

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Author:   Patrick Reilly
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138715318


ISBN 10:   113871531
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 December 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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