Description: Further DetailsTitle: Losing the PlotCondition: NewRelease Date: 11/06/2023Format: PaperbackSubtitle: Film and Feeling in the Modern NovelISBN-10: 0226829251EAN: 9780226829258ISBN: 9780226829258Publisher: University of Chicago PressDescription: An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the “tyranny” of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—writers known for their affinities and connections to classical Hollywood—Pardis Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of these writers to the tensions between the formal properties of their novels and the characters in them. Even when they did not feature outright happy endings, classical Hollywood films often provided satisfying formal resolutions and promoted normative social and political values. Watching these films, modernist authors were reminded of what they were leaving behind—both formally and in the name of aesthetic experimentalism—by losing the plot.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmAuthor: Pardis DabashiGenre: Literary CriticismItem Weight: 426gRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Losing the Plot
Title: Losing the Plot
Subtitle: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel
ISBN-10: 0226829251
EAN: 9780226829258
ISBN: 9780226829258
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Losing the Plot : Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Modern / 20th Century, American / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.1 Oz
Author: Pardis Dabashi
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
