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Modernism: A Short Introduction

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ISBN: 978-0-470-77710-7

May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

176 pages

Description
This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature.

  • Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism.
  • Covers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention.
  • Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.
About the Author
David Ayers is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Modern Poetry at the University of Kent. He is the author of Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (1992) and English Literature of the 1920s (1999).
Features

  • An analysis of Modernism from the perspective of English and American literature.

  • Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism.

  • Covers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention.

  • Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.