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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Barbara Hardy
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Description for Ivy Compton-Burnett
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoretical, a modernist unawares. She makes readers think and her terse cool witty style reminds us that the novel is an art. To read most living writers of fiction after reading her is to feel novelists have become lazy and made their readers lazy. She requires attention, and she doesn't write to pass the time or invite identification, but she is amusing and challenging. This re-valuation of a neglected ... Read more
Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoretical, a modernist unawares. She makes readers think and her terse cool witty style reminds us that the novel is an art. To read most living writers of fiction after reading her is to feel novelists have become lazy and made their readers lazy. She requires attention, and she doesn't write to pass the time or invite identification, but she is amusing and challenging. This re-valuation of a neglected ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Midcentury Modern Writers Eup
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474401357
SKU
V9781474401357
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About Barbara Hardy
Barbara Hardy is Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Birkbeck, University of London, Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, the Welsh Academy, and Hon. Member of the Modern Languages Association.
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