Published 2013-06-01
“…Thus, Arlington Park constitutes a twenty-first-century
cover version of Mrs Dalloway. I would like to observe Cusk’s narrative, stylistic and thematic features, which seem to situate her novel at the confluence of two traditions: firstly, her writing stems from modernism and prolongs modernist techniques, more particularly the Woolfian legacy; Cusk can thus be said to be a neo-modernist writer.2 Secondly, her work belongs to the current “literary fiction” genre: it is an elitist, lyrical, “writerly” type of fiction born with modernist aesthetics.…”
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