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Management number 219437858 Release Date 2026/05/03 List Price $20.48 Model Number 219437858
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Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel grapples with a new and increasingly acute problem: In its attempt to represent the colossal power of modern machinery—the steam-driven machines of the Industrial Revolution, the electrical machines of the modern city, and the atomic and digital machines developed after the Second World War—it encounters the limitations of traditional representative strategies. Beginning in the naturalist novel, the machine is typically portrayed as a mythic monster, and though that monster represents a potentially horrific reality—the superhuman power of mechanization—it also disrupts the documentary objectives of narrative realism (the dominant mode of nineteenth-century fiction). The mechanical monster, realistic and yet at odds with traditional realist strategies, tears the form of the novel apart. In doing so, it unleashes a series of innovations that disclose, critique, and contest the force of mechanization: the innovations associated with literary naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. Read more

XRay Not Enabled
ISBN13 978-0429649141
Edition 1st
Language English
File size 2.8 MB
Page Flip Enabled
Publisher Routledge
Word Wise Enabled
Print length 268 pages
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Screen Reader Supported
Part of series Narrative Theory and Culture
Publication date November 20, 2018
Enhanced typesetting Enabled

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