Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel (Thinking Literature),Used

Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel (Thinking Literature),Used

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The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere descriptionwhat Virginia Woolf called that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool. As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that descriptive practices were in fact a crucial site of attention and experimentation for a number of early modernist writers, centrally Woolf, Henry James, and Marcel Proust.Description is the novelistic technique charged with establishing a common world, but in the early twentieth century, there was little agreement about how a common world could be known and represented. Zhang argues that the protagonists in her study responded by shifting description away from visualizing objects to revealing relationssocial, formal, and experientialbetween disparate phenomena. In addition to shedding new light on some of the bestknown works of modernism, Zhang opens up new ways of thinking about description more broadly. She moves us beyond the classic binary of narrateordescribe and reinvigorates our thinking about the novel. Strange Likeness will enliven conversations around narrative theory, affect theory, philosophy and literature, and reading practices in the academy.

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