Title of Document: BRITISH MODERNIST NARRATIVE MIDDLES Michael Eli Rosenberg, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Brian Richardson, Department of English Middles play a key role in shaping narrative form. However, while Edward Said has shown how beginnings shape the novel and a wide range of intellectual endeavors in Beginnings: Intention and Method, and Frank Kermode has explored...

A passage to India by E.M. Forster is a modern novel written in 1924. It describes the modern movement in that period, so we could say that each movement of the human beings has its own characterizations which recognize it from other periods. Forester’s novel has its own features which recognize it from other ages in English literature. A Passage to India is one of the novels affected by Modern...

For centuries, women in the traditional social order and system have always been considered subservient to men. In patriarchal Bourgeois society, the matriarchal community has been "humiliated", "afflicted", "silenced" and "tortured" socially and economically. With the post-modernizing age, women began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. In India, with the mat...

Virginia Woolf, one of the prominent representatives of modernist novelist in England, has contributed significantly to the development of modern novel in both theory and practice. She abandoned traditional fictional devices and formulated her own distinctive techniques. The novels of Woolf tend to be less concerned with outward reality than with the inner life. Her masterpiece, To the Lighthou...

some literary texts seem being created on the threshold of two different movements, since they reflect the features of them both. some literary features are also common in two different literary movements and they can even be seen in the works belong to two different eras. the novel “asfār-e-kātebān” (books of scribers) is among the works which have lots of techniques and measures which are the...

This paper demonstrates that two novels of European and African origins, Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) Emezi’s Freshwater (2018) share a common discursive formative. Nomadism, it is argued, constitutes the consciousness behind textual formation stories, this informs trajectory border crossing observable in terms narration, characterization incidents. The subjects stories mostly refuse fixed norma...

eorge Eliot’s legacy for modernism is worth considering on multiple grounds but especially in the context of religious belief and its influence on social morality. The comments of two early twentieth-century writers are suggestive of the mixed nature of her legacy. On the one hand, novelist Virginia Woolf (among the most strident critics of Victorian culture) famously said of Middle-march (1872...

Going beyond an autobiographical reading of María Moreno’s Black out (2016), this article analyzes its intertextualities with late 19th century modernist novels. novel, set in the 20th century, reveals thematic and formal resonances narratives that novelized life times artist. This as artist novel is based on relationship it establishes archive (constant similarities also important differences)...