The Reader in Modernist Fiction, Brian Richardson

Brian Richardson is Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several monographs on modernism and narrative theory. In his latest book, The Reader in Modernist Fiction, he studies the implications of the recurrence of reading figures in moder...

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Auteur principal: Quero Mellet, Laurent
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Études britanniques contemporaines 2025
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Brian Richardson is Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several monographs on modernism and narrative theory. In his latest book, The Reader in Modernist Fiction, he studies the implications of the recurrence of reading figures in modernist works of fiction published between 1890 and 1938. His hypothesis is that the misreading reader-characters we encounter in these novels help us become more astute critical readers. The main obj...