Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics

Matz examines the writing of such modernists as James, Conrad and Woolf, who used the word impression to describe what they wanted their fiction to present. Matz argues that these writers did not favor immediate subjective sense, but rather a mode that would mediate perceptual distinctions. Just as impressions fall somewhere between thought and sense, impressionist fiction occupies the middle ground between opposite ways of engaging with the world. This study addresses the problems of perception and representation that occupied writers in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Author: Jesse Matz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/12/2007
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780521033015

About the Author
Matz, Jesse: - Jesse Matz is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University.

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