Jarring Witnesses: Modern Fiction and the Representation of History (Postmodern Theory)

by Professor Robert Holton

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A study of the relationship between narrative and history from the late-19th century to the present day. The book reconsiders the terms of modernist narrative and modernist attitudes to history, focusing on the fiction of Faulkner, Ford, Conrad, Pynchon and black American writers. It also offers a theoretical engagement with the problems of the historiography as they affected the writers concerned. The theoretical argument is illustrated with examples from well-known texts.
  • ISBN10 0745012833
  • ISBN13 9780745012834
  • Publish Date 25 March 1996 (first published 1 June 1993)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Edinburgh University Press
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 304
  • Language English