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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review a very interesting new book about literary modernism and the role of historical narratives. . Seamus O'Malley, MAKING HISTORY NEW: MODERNISM AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, Oxford University Press, 2015. The relationship between history and the modernist novel is central to the argument of this book. Through new readings of Conrad's NOSTROMO, Rebecca West's RETURN OF THE SOLDIER and her BLACK SHEEP AND THE GREY FALCON, and Ford Madox Ford's novels about WWI like THE GOOD SOLDIER, the author shows that the modernist historians "were aware of the pitfalls of narrative, but were also driven by an ethical imperative to relate the past in the forms of stories, and so employed modernist techniques to both signal the past but also stage the difficulties of the recreation of history in language." Contact me at george.snede...@verizon.net if you would like to review this book.Our web page is www.sdonline.org. You can find sample reviews on our web page. George _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
