Title: MODERNIST LITERATURE: CHALLENGING FICTIONS
Description: "Challenging Fiction" is a double entendre. This book argues that modernist fiction is not only difficult (or challenging) to read, it also provokes readers to challenge the fictions that they live by. To read modernist literature in a way that unlocks its humor, its discomfiting insights, and its strong emotional undercurrents, a reader must be both receptive and resistant to the author's perspective, actively challenging it with his or her own experience, knowledge, and sensibilities." "Using writers as diverse as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates that the rewards of "challenging fiction" are considerable and unexpected."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English fiction, History and criticism, Theory, American fiction, Modernism (Literature), Fiction, Appreciation, Books and reading, Authors and readers, Reader-response criticism, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, Modernisme (cultuur), Bellettrie, Theory, etc