The Reader in Modernist Fiction - Bok av Brian Richardson - Inbunden
[headline]The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction Many major modernists - including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison - wrote central scenes describing characters reading. In most cases, the readers depicted suffer unfortunate fates. Intriguingly, the act of reading is also often intertwined with..