Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.03.2016
Verlag
Edinburgh University PressSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
23.1/15.5/1.3 cm
Gewicht
249 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4744-0135-7
The first fully detailed and critically contextualised study of the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoretical, a modernist unawares. She makes readers think and her terse cool witty style reminds us that the novel is an art. To read most living writers of fiction after reading her is to feel novelists have become lazy and made their readers lazy. She requires attention, and she doesn't write to pass the time or invite identification, but she is amusing and challenging.
This re-valuation of a neglected artist is a close analysis of forms, ideas and language in novels which range from her first conventionally moral love-story, Dolores, which she tried to suppress, to startling stories about landed gentry in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Key Features
- Provides incisive and accessible close readings of Compton-Burnett's language, life-narratives, emotional expression and thought
- Presents new work of a leading critic
- Places Compton-Burnett in the context of Modernist writing
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