{"product_id":"strange-likeness-description-and-the-modernist-novel-thinking-literature-022672249x","title":"Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel (Thinking Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 022672249X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Zhang, Dora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that descriptive practices were in fact a crucial site of attention and experimentation for a number of early modernist writers, centrally Woolf, Henry James, and Marcel Proust.Description is the novelistic technique charged with establishing a common world, but in the early twentieth century, there was little agreement about how a common world could be known and represented. Zhang argues that the protagonists in her study responded by shifting description away from visualizing objects to revealing relations-social, formal, and experiential-between disparate phenomena. In addition to shedding new light on some of the best-known works of modernism, Zhang opens up new ways of thinking about description more broadly. She moves us beyond the classic binary of narrate-or-describe and reinvigorates our thinking about the novel. Strange Likeness will enliven conversations around narrative theory, affect theory, philosophy and literature, and reading practices in the academy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51677955391776,"sku":"NEW022672249X","price":128.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61jUVmouC8L.jpg?v=1779300763","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/strange-likeness-description-and-the-modernist-novel-thinking-literature-022672249x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}