Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself.
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Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself.
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Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives

Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives

by A. Bennett, N. Royle
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives

Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives

by A. Bennett, N. Royle

Hardcover(1995)

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Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the twentieth-century novel in English. This is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333607602
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 12/19/1994
Series: Still Lives
Edition description: 1995
Pages: 181
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ANDREW BENNETT
NICHOLAS ROYLE

Table of Contents

Foreword - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Abeyances: The Hotel and The Last September - Shivered: To the North and Friends and Relations - Fanatic Immobility: The House in Paris - Dream Wood: The Death of the Heart - Sheer Kink: The Heat of the Day - Obelisk: A World of Love - Trance: The Little Girls - Convulsions: Eva Trout - Index
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