A poetics of postmodernism and neomodernism
Subtitle: rewriting Mrs Dalloway
By: Monica Latham, Universitéde Lorraine, Nancy France
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781137490797
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); Poetics; Influence; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, one of the most significant modernist texts from the Western literary canon, has spawned numerous contemporary offspring. Contemporary authors have dialogued with it, challenged it, reinvented it and offered creative responses to it, thus reinforcing its accumulated critical reputation and canonical status. After meticulously tracing the genesis of Woolf's most iconic novel so as to examine the production of Woolf's idiosyncratic Dalloway-esque signature, A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism sets out to explore its reproduction by a variety of postmodernist and neomodernist Anglo-American writers who are either openly indebted to Woolf's novel or covertly influenced by it. The contemporary tributes that are indebted to Mrs Dalloway in so many ways have rejuvenated the Woolfian novel and have propelled it into the twenty-first century. Almost a hundred years after its publication, Woolf's Mrs Dalloway has proved to be an enduring text, an 'ice-breaking vessel' which continues to invite 'individual talents' to follow in its wake"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons'2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators5 The Artful Ornament of OrdinarinessNotesBibliographyIndex.