A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway

by M. Latham

Overview

This new book examines how a range of authors today perpetuate Virginia Woolf's literary legacy, by creating new forms adapted to their new ages and audiences. Addressing questions about the current penchant for refashioning our canon in order to update, this book will be valuable reading for both students and scholars of Woolf.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137490803
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	05/27/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	505 KB

About the Author

Monica Latham is a Senior Lecturer of British literature at the English Department of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism. She has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is also the co-editor of the series Book Practices and Textual Itineraries.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 'The dressing-rooms, the workshops, the sculleries, the bubbling cauldrons' 2 Ventriloquists: Between Debt and Homage 3 Parodic Games: Textual Assassinations and Canonical Resurrection 4 Virginia Woolf's Neomodernist Heirs: Nostalgic Innovators 5 The Artful Ornament of Ordinariness Notes Bibliography Index