Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday Novel by Nick Shepley
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Overview: This book offers a critical prism through which Henry Green’s fiction—from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s—can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique of the tension between class, style, and realism in the first half of the twentieth century. It extends ongoing critical recognition that Green’s work is central to the development of the novel from the 1920s to the 1950s, acting as a vital bridge between modernist, interwar, post-war, and postmodernist fiction. The overarching contention is that Green’s fiction problematizes everyday life: the non-specific (mal)functioning of names, symbols, class, trauma, and daily routines within his work repeatedly expose some of the fundamental contradictions of, and difficulties in, representing everydayness. The book lingers over these contradictions with the aim of teasing out a number of the hidden potentialities within Green’s literary productions, such that readers of Green might also consider the role of the prosaic in his work. To pay such attention is not only rewarding, opening up individual Green texts to diverse and rich interpretations, but it also offers an opportunity to situate Green’s rather shape-shifting oeuvre in more direct alliance with authors like Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Beckett, and Auden who are increasingly being seen to problematize the everyday.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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