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Modes of Modern Writing Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

Lodge, David
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk

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9781474244213
Published
2015-10-22
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Academic
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480 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Number of pages
368

Author
Lodge, David

Biographical note

David Lodge (CBE) is an internationally acclaimed author and critic. His novels have been awarded the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His influential works of literary criticism continue to shape the way we read literature today.

Modes of Modern Writing Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

Lodge, David
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
Lodge, David
Heftet / 2015 / Engelsk
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Important and original...<i>The Modes of Modern Writing </i>is an outstanding book.

Times Higher Education

David Lodge is one of the ablest critics and theorists of the novel at work in England...[His] book is a very good one. It is bold and ambitious but always lucid and explicit, and it returns again and again to specific texts by way of both illustrating and testing its assertions.

The Yale Review

[A] bold, incisive essay which, with admirable lucidity, offers its readers a brilliantly honed and deftly applied analytic tool.

The Times Literary Supplement

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[G]ripping in its pursuit of what literature is and how one recognizes it.

English Review

The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge’s typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.
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Preface
Prefatory note to the Second Impression
Acknowledgements

PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND EXECUTIONS

1. What is Literature
2. George Orwell's 'A Hanging', and 'Michael Lake Describes'
3. Oscar Wilde: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'
4. What is Realism?
5. Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives' Tale
6. William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch
7. The Realistic Tradition
8. Two Kinds of Modern Fiction
9. Crticism and Realism
10. The Novel and the Nouvelle Crtique
11. Conclusion to Part One

PART TWO: Metaphor and Metonymy

1. Jackobson's Theory
2. Two Types of Aphasia
3. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles
4. Drama and Film
5. Poetry, Prose and the Poetic
6. Types of Description
7. The Executions Revisited
8. The Metonymic Text as Metaphor
9. Metaphor and Context

PART THREE: MODERNISTS, ANTIMODERNISTS AND POSTMODERNIST

1. James Joyce
2. Gertrude Stein
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. D.H. Lawrence
5. Virginia Woolf
6. In the Thirties
7. Philip Larkin
8. Postmodernist Fiction

Appendix A: 'A Hanging' by George Orwell
Appendix B: 'Michael Lake Describes What the Executioner Actually Faces'
Appendix C: Extract from The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

Notes and References
Index

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A landmark work of literary criticism from one of Britain's best loved and most influential writers.
David Lodge (CBE) is well known, prizewinning, author
Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury Academic's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Carol Adams, Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski, Susan Strange and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world.
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Important and original...<i>The Modes of Modern Writing </i>is an outstanding book.

Times Higher Education

David Lodge is one of the ablest critics and theorists of the novel at work in England...[His] book is a very good one. It is bold and ambitious but always lucid and explicit, and it returns again and again to specific texts by way of both illustrating and testing its assertions.

The Yale Review

[A] bold, incisive essay which, with admirable lucidity, offers its readers a brilliantly honed and deftly applied analytic tool.

The Times Literary Supplement

See all

[G]ripping in its pursuit of what literature is and how one recognizes it.

English Review

The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge’s typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.
Read more

Preface
Prefatory note to the Second Impression
Acknowledgements

PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND EXECUTIONS

1. What is Literature
2. George Orwell's 'A Hanging', and 'Michael Lake Describes'
3. Oscar Wilde: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'
4. What is Realism?
5. Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives' Tale
6. William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch
7. The Realistic Tradition
8. Two Kinds of Modern Fiction
9. Crticism and Realism
10. The Novel and the Nouvelle Crtique
11. Conclusion to Part One

PART TWO: Metaphor and Metonymy

1. Jackobson's Theory
2. Two Types of Aphasia
3. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles
4. Drama and Film
5. Poetry, Prose and the Poetic
6. Types of Description
7. The Executions Revisited
8. The Metonymic Text as Metaphor
9. Metaphor and Context

PART THREE: MODERNISTS, ANTIMODERNISTS AND POSTMODERNIST

1. James Joyce
2. Gertrude Stein
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. D.H. Lawrence
5. Virginia Woolf
6. In the Thirties
7. Philip Larkin
8. Postmodernist Fiction

Appendix A: 'A Hanging' by George Orwell
Appendix B: 'Michael Lake Describes What the Executioner Actually Faces'
Appendix C: Extract from The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

Notes and References
Index

Read more
A landmark work of literary criticism from one of Britain's best loved and most influential writers.
David Lodge (CBE) is well known, prizewinning, author
Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury Academic's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Carol Adams, Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski, Susan Strange and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world.
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9781474244213
Published
2015-10-22
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Bloomsbury Academic
Weight
480 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
368

Author
Lodge, David

Biographical note

David Lodge (CBE) is an internationally acclaimed author and critic. His novels have been awarded the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His influential works of literary criticism continue to shape the way we read literature today.

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