Losing the Plot – Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel by Dabashi, Pardis - 2023

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2023. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.69 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. <b>An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction.</b><br /><br /> 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… Read More