{"product_id":"forms-of-modernist-fiction-reading-the-novel-from-james-joyce-to-tom-mccarthy-9781399512459","title":"Forms of Modernist Fiction: Reading the Novel from James Joyce to Tom McCarthy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe formal innovations of the modernist novelists have continued to reverberate to the present day, less importantly as a matter of imitation and more as a stimulus to further innovation. Focusing on the experience of the reader in engaging with a selection of these works from around the globe, this book argues that a rigorous attention to formal features is crucial in appreciating their achievement and in understanding the impact of the early modernists on the history of the novel. Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses \u003c\/i\u003eis given particular attention for its feats of formal invention and as an inspiration for many later writers. Among the facets of modernist writing explored are the separation of content and form, the transgression of linguistic boundaries, the defiance of lexical and syntactic rules, the deployment realist techniques to present the unreal, the political significance of literary form, and the relation between formal innovation and affect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerek Attridge is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author or editor of thirty books across a number of fields, including literary theory, South African literature, the history and forms of poetry and the work of James Joyce. His most recent publications are, as author, \u003ci\u003eThe Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and, as co-editor, \u003ci\u003eIn a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa by Graham Pechey\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He was the first recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Prize and his book \u003ci\u003eThe Singularity of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e won the European Society for the Study of English Prize for literary studies in 2006. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Professorship and fellowships at the Camargo Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, the National Humanities Centre and All Souls and St Catherine's Colleges, Oxford. Before moving to York, he held posts at the universities of Oxford, Southampton, Strathclyde and at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Temporary positions have included Visiting Professorships in the USA, Italy, France, South Africa and Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50913296122130,"sku":"9781399512459","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78a6be83-b602-4b34-9467-89ee8ac7b2eb.jpg?v=1738781484","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forms-of-modernist-fiction-reading-the-novel-from-james-joyce-to-tom-mccarthy-9781399512459","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}