Modernist Fiction and News : Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century

Modernist Fiction and News characterizes uses novel reading of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf to explore how these authors engaged with a rapidly expanding news industry in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality. "Modernist Fiction and News characterizes modernism in terms of its intimate, creative, and experimental relationship with a newly reorganized and rapidly expanding news industry. Writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf engage with the discourse and narratives of the news in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Modernism, News, and the Representation of Experience....Pages 1-25 Nearness....Pages 27-46 Scandal....Pages 47-72 Character....Pages 73-95 Identity....Pages 97-117 War....Pages 119-137 Coda: Make It Now....Pages 139-145 Back Matter....Pages 147-198