Mahaffey, Vicki.

Modernist literature : challenging fictions / Vicki Mahaffey. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007. - xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-230) and index.

Why read challenging literature? -- Partnering: Holmes and Watson, author and reader, lover and loved, man and wife -- Window painting: the art of blocking understanding -- Watchman, what of the night?

0631213066 9780631213062 0631213074 9780631213079

2006-022479


English fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
Fiction--Appreciation--English-speaking countries.
Books and reading--English-speaking countries.
Authors and readers.
Reader-response criticism.

PR888.M63 / M35 2007