Road map--modernism and moral ambiguity -- How to read fiction--Joyce's "An encounter" -- Defining modernism--Monet's cathedral -- Defining modernism--beyond impressionism -- "The man who would be king"--imperial fools -- "Heart of darkness"--Europe's Kurtz -- "Heart of darkness"--the drama of the telling -- "The shadow-line"--unheroic heroes --
"The metamorphosis"--uneasy dreams -- "Dubliners"--the music of the ordinary -- "Ulysses"--Joyce's Homer -- "Ulysses"--the incongruity principle -- "To the lighthouse"--life stands still here -- "To the lighthouse"--that horrid skull again -- Isaac Babel--Jew and Cossack -- Isaac Babel--Odessa's Homer -- Faulkner's world--our frantic steeplechase -- "Absalom, Absalom!"--the fragile thread -- "Pale fire"--modern or postmodern" -- The moral vision of modern fiction.
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