The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature (Bloomsbury Revelations) - Softcover

Lodge, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474244211 ISBN 13: 9781474244213

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.

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About the Author

David Lodge was an internationally acclaimed author, critic and academic. His novels have been awarded the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for Small World in 1984 and for Nice Work in 1988). His influential works of literary criticism continue to shape the way we read literature today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474244211
• ISBN 13: 9781474244213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368