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Ivy Compton-Burnett / Barbara Hardy

Author
Hardy, Barbara, 1924-2016
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 159 pages).
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Contents
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Title and Its Text -- Chapter 2 Making Conversation -- Chapter 3 The Narrative Imagination -- Chapter 4 Languages of Feeling -- Chapter 5 Creatures and Conditions -- Chapter 6 Meals and Hospitalities -- Chapter 7 Games We Play -- Chapter 8 Books We Read and Write -- Chapter 9 Elders and Betters -- Chapter 10 Darkness and Day -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
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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ISBN
1474401368 (electronic bk.)
9781474401364 (electronic bk.)
1474401341
147440135X
9781474401357
9781474401340
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index.
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