Chapter · January 1, 2018
This chapter considers V. S. Naipaul as a belated modernist who exhibits what Harold Bloom terms an acute anxiety of influence. Naipaul denies any debt to Anglophone modernism and is widely considered a Dickensian realist. Focusing on The Enigma of Arrival ...
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Chapter · August 11, 2014
This volume ranges beyond such iconic figures to open up new ground with chapters on Irish women modernists, Irish American modernism, Irish language modernism and the critical reception of modernism in Ireland. ...
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Chapter · December 16, 2010
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This article examines literary modernism's neglect of social and political criticism. One possible reason for this relative neglect is the fact that modernist works of social and political criticism have assumed varied and peculiar shapes. The article expl ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Literary Studies · January 1, 2009
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This article analyses the multi-generic and protean formal properties of Elizabeth Costello (2003) in order to illustrate how Coetzee's experiments with literary form constitute a distinctive intervention in contemporary political, philosophical and aesthe ...
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