Modernist Novel

Heterogeneous Narrative Perspective Absalom, Absalom! is a novel written in 1936 by William Faulkner, the winner of two Pulitzer’s and a Nobel Peace prize for his many literary masterpieces. Faulkner has gained a celebrated reputation for his depiction of life in the American South. Though critics have established Absalom, Absalom! as Faulkner’s most difficult writing, it is also revered for its intellectually enriching metaphors and the complicated spiraling of events through narration.…

Few novelists have displayed such fervor for portraying the human condition as Virginia Woolf. Jacob’s Room, her 1922 Modernist novel, encapsulates her passion. As Woolf’s first truly experimental novel, it rejects convention and aspires to invent methods that better illuminate life’s essence; to exemplify, the text’s innovative inclusion of leitmotifs defies tradition, yet it elucidates the obscure. The novel’s leitmotifs, ostensibly interspersed randomly, demonstrate identity’s fluidity and…

Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is well discussed in the fourth chapter. Anthony Burgess, the British novelist is considered to be one of the newest and most talented of the younger British writers. Many critics have rated his novel A Clockwork Orange as one of Burgess' most brilliant achievements. The ability of an individual to make moral choices is the major theme of A Clockwork Orange. The society presented by Burgess deals with experiments and behaviour modification techniques on…

Chat Sumlin ENGL-2210-016 Fall 2016 Paper 2 Alienation In European literature romantic and modernist movements alienation was commonly used as a means to develop their characters in a more personal manner. Romanticism was less of a political movement, compared to other movements, rather it was more of a movement towards increasing intellectualism. During the age of romanticism authors were focused on deep thinking and the value of expression of thought, these themes go hand in hand with the…

predictions of our present culture to actual post-modern novelistic examples, from reality to technological attributions, politics and intertextuality, the explanations for the deterioration in literary creativity and quality vary widely. The fate of the novel has taken a turn for the worse since post-modernism began in the 1950’s simply because people have lost their sense of reality in the world. Authors in this generation merely rewrite the past and foresee the future; in this process we’ve…

and merge many aspects of the world together. Oedipa recognized that the world of The Crying of Lot 49 was fragmented. For example, she recognized in the novel that the world contained diverse groups of people that did not fit together. Some of these included: druggies, rock singers, lawyers, actors, Mafia, and the other century cultures. The novel clarifies that these groups weren’t bonded to the elements of this world. Oedipa recognized that the society had no bond; and, therefore, she tried…

gained its popularity in America and it become rich and varied in the hands of the American writers and critic. Kurt Vonnegut’ also one of the postmodern writers of the 20th century, his use of different narrative technique in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five renders the novel an extraordinary one. Vonnegut here employs almost all the technique and device of postmodern time. In Slaughterhouse-Five he experimented…

and also an soon performance in Belfast. She also thinks of the differences between Boylan and Bloom. Compared to a usual novel, the close personal nature of her thoughts and the natural way she acts is astounding. The clarity and even the close ups we get of Molly’s body is unparalleled in the way of describing characters in other works. The way the writing goes in the novel and the depth and complexity of thoughts and memories we get from tapping into Molly's mind really makes everything we…

conditions and socio-economic demands. Atkinson describes the historical backdrop of the writing of the novel, which is the stock market crash of 1929. He argues that the novel represents how the modernist text struggles with opposing actions (engage or…

present outsiders in the Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Great Gatsby. Both novels portray various characters who feel as if they are “within” yet can never move past or get rid of feelings or the paranoia of being an outsider and being “without”. This is emphasised through Nick’s comment of being “within and without”. Due to the differentiated status of the characters, it could be argued that characters within the novel are marginalised by the societies they live in. Both narrators choose to…