Narrative machine : the naturalist, modernist, and postmodernist novel / Zena Meadowsong.
Meadowsong, Zena| Call Number | 823/.809 |
| Author | Meadowsong, Zena, author. |
| Title | Narrative machine : the naturalist, modernist, and postmodernist novel / Zena Meadowsong. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages). |
| Series | Narrative theory and culture |
| Contents | Introduction Part I. Naturalism and the Monster Machine Chapter 1: Zola's monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing Part II. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce's utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust Part III. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec |
| Summary | Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel grapples with a new and increasingly acute problem: In its attempt to represent the colossal power of modern machinery--the steam-driven machines of the Industrial Revolution, the electrical machines of the modern city, and the atomic and digital machines developed after the Second World War--it encounters the limitations of traditional representative strategies. Beginning in the naturalist novel, the machine is typically portrayed as a mythic monster, and though that monster represents a potentially horrific reality--the superhuman power of mechanization--it also disrupts the documentary objectives of narrative realism (the dominant mode of nineteenth-century fiction). The mechanical monster, realistic and yet at odds with traditional realist strategies, tears the form of the novel apart. In doing so, it unleashes a series of innovations that disclose, critique, and contest the force of mechanization: the innovations associated with literary naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. |
| Subject | English fiction 19th century History and criticism. American fiction 19th century History and criticism. Machinery in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading |
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| Summary | Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel grapples with a new and increasingly acute problem: In its attempt to represent the colossal power of modern machinery--the steam-driven machines of the Industrial Revolution, the electrical machines of the modern city, and the atomic and digital machines developed after the Second World War--it encounters the limitations of traditional representative strategies. Beginning in the naturalist novel, the machine is typically portrayed as a mythic monster, and though that monster represents a potentially horrific reality--the superhuman power of mechanization--it also disrupts the documentary objectives of narrative realism (the dominant mode of nineteenth-century fiction). The mechanical monster, realistic and yet at odds with traditional realist strategies, tears the form of the novel apart. In doing so, it unleashes a series of innovations that disclose, critique, and contest the force of mechanization: the innovations associated with literary naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. |
| Contents | Introduction Part I. Naturalism and the Monster Machine Chapter 1: Zola's monster machines Chapter 2: Mechanical monsters in England and America Chapter 3: The machined aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing Part II. Modernism versus the Machine Chapter 4: Lawrence and the monster machine Chapter 5: Joyce's utopian machine Chapter 6: Against the quotidian machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust Part III. Postmodernism: Living with the Machine Chapter 7: The new sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick Chapter 8: The digital and atomic plots of Pynchon and DeLillo Chapter 9: The machinery of liberation: Georges Perec |
| Subject | English fiction 19th century History and criticism. American fiction 19th century History and criticism. Machinery in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading |
| Multimedia |