The Politics of Narration: James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf

by Richard Pearce

In The Politics of Narration, Richard Pearce shows how most readings and theories of reading mitigate the power of narrative disruptions of texts, particularly those of high modernist texts. He chooses to look at the three chief exemplars of modernism, Joyce, Faulkner, and Woolf, in order to examine a range of disruptions and their importance for us as readers. In doing so, he shows that telling stories is always a political act, whether or not the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516560
• ISBN13: 9780813516561
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.