British Modernist Narrative Middles

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dc.contributor.advisorRichardson, Brianen_US
dc.contributor.authorRosenberg, Michael Elien_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-28T06:16:25Z
dc.date.available2013-06-28T06:16:25Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractMiddles 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 the pull of the ending on Western narrative in The Sense of an Ending, there has been no comparable study of the middle. Defining the narrative middle as a central piece of text that has a transitional or transformational function, <italic>British Modernist Narrative Middles</italic> draws attention to the ways narrative middles have been used to construct distinctly modernist narratives through transformations of narrative form and technique. The various techniques employed in modernist narrative middles are demonstrated through close readings of three canonical modernist texts: Joseph Conrad's <italic>Lord Jim</italic>, Henry James's <italic>The Golden Bowl</italic>, and Virginia Woolf's <italic>To the Lighthouse</italic>; as well as three British neo-modernist texts: Rayner Heppenstall's <italic>Saturnine</italic>, B. S. Johnson's <italic>The Unfortunates</italic>, and Brigid Brophy's <italic>In Transit</italic>. While not all modernist texts employ prominent narrative middles, when they do, these middles can be crucial to our understanding both of these novels' narrative form and how they grapple with the major thematic and poetic concerns of modernism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14052
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiteratureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledModern literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBritish and Irish literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmiddlesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmodernismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednarrativeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednarratologyen_US
dc.titleBritish Modernist Narrative Middlesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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