The Uses of Obscurity (The Fiction of Early Modernism)

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19^th Century and which became so important to modernism.

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