Modernist fiction and news
Subtitle: representing experience in the early twentieth century
By: David Rando
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780230114517
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Literature and society; History and criticism; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Modernism (Literature); Experience in literature; Press and journalism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; History
Description: "Modernist Fiction and News characterizes modernism in terms of its intimate, creative, and experimental relationship with a newly reorganized and rapidly expanding news industry. Writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf engage with the discourse and narratives of the news in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.