| #1719754 in Books | 2013-08-01 | 2013-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.20 x.90 x9.10l,.85 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A touchstone for scholars of modernism, post-colonialism, and globalization|By Jonathan C. Gagas|Jed Esty sets a new standard for modernist studies by unraveling the straw man of Eurocentric high modernism in the novel, patiently demonstrating the limitations of avant-garde hyperbole of the Deleuzian and Tel Quel varieties, offering the high modernist novel and its post-1945 in|||"The power of Esty's text to rewire one's thinking is most evident in the fact that such quibbles arise only once one has accepted his ambitious reframing of the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century novelistic tradition. ... This is a major rereading o
Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Modernist Literature and Culture) | Jed Esty. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
