Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel by Dora Zhang
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel

Dora Zhang

Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel

Thinking Literature

Dora Zhang

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

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The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description--what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation durin...

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