TY - BOOK ID - 80815882 TI - Modernist futures : innovation and inheritance in the contemporary novel PY - 2012 SN - 9781139528597 1139528599 9781139526203 1139526200 9781139136754 1139136755 9781107022478 1107022479 113954019X 1107231752 1283522128 1139527401 9786613834577 1139532065 1139530879 PB - Cambridge, [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - 82-31 "19/20" KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - History and criticism KW - Roman--20e-21e eeuw. Periode 1900-2099 KW - Philosophy KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80815882 AB - In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. By rethinking critical and disciplinary parameters, James brings scholarship on contemporary fiction into dialogue with modernist studies, offering a nuanced account of narrative strategies that sheds new light on the form of the novel today. An ambitious and incisive contribution to the field, this book will appeal especially to scholars of modernism and contemporary literary culture as well as those in American and postcolonial studies. ER -