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Storytelling In Modernist Fiction: A “Method Of Presence”, Laura Malhotra
Storytelling In Modernist Fiction: A “Method Of Presence”, Laura Malhotra
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This dissertation explores the relationship between narrative modes in cinema and literature and adopts the lineage laid out by Lukács that connects the oral tradition and epic poetry to the novel. I attach art cinema to this lineage and seek to justify its position as an equally significant medium representative of the age in which it is produced. This study aims to correct one established view of film, put forth by the Frankfurt School, of its low value as an art form and as a site of meaning. I compare the birth of literary modernism in Britain to the emergence …