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Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form
  • ISSN 1874-8767
  • E-ISSN: 1874-8775
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Abstract

This paper argues that literary modernism can be productively understood as a reflection on what happens when joint attention is frustrated in its operation. Experimental fictions of the early twentieth century frequently dramatize problems of joint attention that can be traced to the ultimate relation between author, reader, and text. Analysis of these dramatizations demonstrates the importance of this joint attentional trope, and suggests a fresh reading of the famous “phantom table” in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

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2010-01-01
2024-12-06
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