Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner,
The Modernist Matrix
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- Book ID
- 125296110
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-5132
- DOI
- 10.2307/1345865
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