Rebeca Gualberto Valverde

Splintering the Mythos of Modernism: Metamodernist Dialogues in Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room (2012)

Abstract This paper advances a myth-critical interpretation of Pat Barker’s 2012 novel Toby’s Room, anchored in an exploration of how the novel engages, intertextually and diachronically, with the literature and art of modernism. Exploring the intersections of Barker’s text and Virginia Woolf’s 1922 novel Jacob’s Room,...