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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cheney, Matthew, Modernist crisis and the pedagogy of form New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. (DLC) 2019025911 |
Named Person: | Virginia Woolf; Samuel R Delany; J M Coetzee; J M Coetzee; Samuel R Delany; Virginia Woolf |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Cheney |
ISBN: | 9781501355912 1501355910 |
OCLC Number: | 1101562009 |
Description: | xii, 201 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | AcknowledgmentsNote on Punctuation and Editions CitedAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Here and Now: The Years3. Into Crisis: "The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals"4. Improper Arts: The Mad Man5. Away from Crisis: Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime6. ConclusionReferencesIndex |
Responsibility: | Matthew Cheney. |
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Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form is a timely book in a time of crisis. With his astute and eloquent analyses of three major authors-the British Virginia Woolf, enshrined in the literary canon; the South African-born J. M. Coetzee, a Nobel Prize winner; and the American Samuel R. Delany, inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame-Matthew Cheney argues on behalf of the relevance of literature and the humanities in our own era. Woolf, Coetzee, and Delany wrote 'as Rome was burning,' and Cheney shows that they were not fiddling but rather, in their challenging of the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, crafting new ways of learning, thinking, and teaching. * Jeanne Dubino, Professor of English and Global Studies, Appalachian State University, USA * Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form is a powerful and engaging study of modernism and its literary legacies through the writing of Virginia Woolf, J.M. Coetzee, and Samuel R. Delany. Cheney offers critical interpretations of 'crisis,' 'newness,' and 'pedagogy' in the works of these three authors, and explores the anxieties that writers often feel about the socio-political value of their work. He has produced a book that not only addresses the field of modernism, but one that also engages with broader ideas about the meaning of art and the persistent relevance of the novel as an artistic and pedagogical form. * Lavelle Porter, Assistant Professor of English, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, USA * Read more...


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- Modernism (Literature)
- Fiction -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
- Fiction -- Social aspects.
- Crises in literature.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Delany, Samuel R. -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940-
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941.