Losing the Plot

Name: Losing the Plot
SKU: 9780226829241
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Author: Pardis Dabashi
ISBN: 9780226829241

Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvPardis Dabashi

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An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction.The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the “tyranny” of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—writers known for their affinities and connections to classical Hollywood—Pardis Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of these writers to the tensions between the formal properties of their novels and the characters in them. Even when they did not feature outright happy endings, classical Hollywood films often provided satisfying formal resolutions and promoted normative social and political values. Watching these films, modernist authors were reminded of what they were leaving behind—both formally and in the name of aesthetic experimentalism—by losing the plot.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-07
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226829241

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“Reevaluating one of the most familiar critical truisms about the period, Losing the Plot is an erudite, elegant, and insightful exploration of modernism’s ambivalent relationship to plot. Reading Larsen alongside Garbo, or Barnes alongside Dietrich, Dabashi shows us how the encounter with commercial narrative cinema allowed modernist writers to negotiate the double feelings of repudiation and longing for stability and coherence associated with the closure and teleology of plot.”