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Modernism

ISBN: 978-0-631-23077-9

January 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

320 pages

Description
This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.

  • A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  • Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  • Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  • Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  • Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
  • Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
  • Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.
About the Author
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).
Features

  • A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  • Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism
  • Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  • Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  • Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  • Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
  • Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
  • Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.