Paranoid Modernism structural analysis In the first three decades

In the first three decades of the twentieth century

Egon Berghout University of Groningen

these forms of engagement

but rather how social factors operate and how to address them most effectively

Paranoid Modernism structural analysis In the first three decadesThe early twentieth century notoriously saw an unprecedented wave of experiment in the arts. So intense was this activity that one can without exaggeration speak of a will to experiment (to 'make it new'). Where did that will to experiment come from? Why did it so insistently take the forms it took? Looking specifically at Modernism in England, David Trotter seeks answers in the careers of three novelists writing in the first decades of the century: