Thesis
Generic insistence: Joseph Conrad and the document in selected British and American modernist fiction
- Abstract:
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This thesis explores the citation of documents in the modernist novel. From contracts to newspaper articles, telegrams to reports, documents are invoked as interleaved texts in ways that, to date, have not been critically interrogated. I consider a range of novels, including works by Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, and Willa Cather, which are selected, in part, as a litmus of Anglo-American modernism, though they can more productively also be understood as coalescing around ...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2013
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:7648
- Deposit date:
- 2013-12-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Manocha, N
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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