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The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature
David Lodge
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Description for The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature
Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential ... Read more
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Bloomsbury Revelations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474244213
SKU
V9781474244213
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About David Lodge
David Lodge (CBE) is an internationally acclaimed author and critic. His novels have been awarded the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His influential works of literary criticism continue to shape the way we read literature today.
Reviews for The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature
Important and original...The Modes of Modern Writing is an outstanding book.
Times Higher Education
David Lodge is one of the ablest critics and theorists of the novel at work in England...[His] book is a very good one. It is bold and ambitious but always lucid and explicit, and it returns again and again to specific texts by way ... Read more
Times Higher Education
David Lodge is one of the ablest critics and theorists of the novel at work in England...[His] book is a very good one. It is bold and ambitious but always lucid and explicit, and it returns again and again to specific texts by way ... Read more