1st Edition

Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By William Vesterman Copyright 2014
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

How have twentieth-century writers used techniques in fiction to communicate the human experience of time? Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction explores this question by analyzing major narratives of the last century that demonstrate how time becomes variously manifested to reflect and illuminate its operation in our lives. Offering close readings of both modernist and... Read more

Introduction: Thematicizing Time  1. Plum Time in Everland: The Divine Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse  2. Wyndham Lewis vs. Gertrude Stein: Classic Time vs. Romantic Time  3. Choral Narrative and the Web of Time in Ulysses: From Romanticism to Modernism  4. The Moment of Truth in The Sun Also Rises  5. Coming to Terms with Time in Faulkner  6. Particles and Waves in Borgesian Time  7. The Technique of Time in Lolita  8. A Pleromatic Reprise of the Book

Biography

William Vesterman is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, US