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The Dark Landscape Of Modern Fiction

by Patrick Reilly
language: english
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, November of 2019 ‧
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This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts, setting a theme of Dantes Inferno against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery OConnor. The authors thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that

The Dark Landscape Of Modern Fiction

by Patrick Reilly

Property Description
ISBN: 9781138715301
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Release Date: November of 2019
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Faith & Religion > Science and History of Religions
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781138715301