Overview
- Contributes to our understanding of twentieth century women’s writing in the short story form, a genre which is often conceived of as frivolous or underdeveloped but which acts as a vehicle of philosophical thought
- Provides an original and illuminating reading of an important but undervalued body of modernist literature
- Explores a genuine phenomenon - the strange use of objects in women’s modernist short fiction and teases out its significance, moving from the micro to the macro level in terms of cultural and philosophical analysis
Part of the book series: Material Modernisms (MM)
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Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.
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- Clare Hanson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK
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Book Title: Modernist Short Fiction and Things
Authors: Aimée Gasston
Series Title: Material Modernisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78544-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78543-7Published: 11 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78546-8Published: 12 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78544-4Published: 10 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2661-8273
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8281
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 227
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory