{"title":"Elizabeth Pender","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Pender\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the evolving landscape of modern literature with a keen eye on its cultural and artistic contexts. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe New Modernist Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the innovative forms and themes that define contemporary artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analysis that bridges literary tradition and modern creativity, engaging with the arts and culture that shape the narrative fabric of today’s novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-new-modernist-novel-by-elizabeth-pender-9781474461498","title":"The New Modernist Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSince the late twentieth century, new understandings of modernism have come with new attention to a range of writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e Yet if the academic study of modernism took shape around an older, narrower selection of writers and works, how can its modes of reading be relevant to newly recovered modernist writing?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Modernist Novel\u003c\/em\u003e considers how close reading may change as the subjects of literary study change. Elizabeth Pender asks what reading meant for critics of modernist literature around 1930 and around 1960, and then what close reading might look like now for three new modernist novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDjuna Barnes's \u003cem\u003eNightwood\u003c\/em\u003e, John Rodker's \u003cem\u003eAdolphe 1920\u003c\/em\u003e, and Mina Loy's \u003cem\u003eInsel\u003c\/em\u003e tend to resist some of the strategies of reading that helped construct a narrowed modernist canon at mid-century, such as the pursuit of coherence. These novels offer new thinking about the temporality of reading, style, and the ethics of narration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReading these novels now suggests that other new modernist fiction, too, may require revisions to vocabularies with which modernist literature has sometimes been read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934335484140,"sku":"9781474461498","price":92.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781474461498-the-new-modernist-novel.jpg?v=1783913115"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/elizabeth-pender.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}