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Modernist Literature


Modernist Literature

Paperback
Modernist Literature

£23.99

ISBN:
9780748634323
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Pages:
256 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 - 30 May 2024
Modernist Literature

Description

Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, the guide takes students through a wide-ranging modernist literary landscape. It considers how the publishing networks and collaborative projects which connected writers in the period were central to the creation of English-language modernism. It also introduces students to recent critical debates in modernism studies, with separate chapters on modernism and the writing of geography and exile, the relationship between modernism, obscenity and literary censorship, and modernism and mass culture - with a particular focus on the modernist interest in film - and modernism and politics. The book also considers the changing meaning of the word modernism through twentieth and twenty-first century criticism. Key Features: *Introduces a wide range of modernist writers, including familiar authors such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis and less canonical figures such as H.D., Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes and Laura Riding *Modernism is presented as an extensive literary landscape, something that has featured significantly in recent critical discussions of modernism *Introduces students to modernist techniques and to recent debates *Shows how English-language modernism emerged, and connects this to recent debates about modernist publishing and networks Key Words: Modernism, Modernist Literature, Publishing, Obscenity, Censorship, Mass Culture, Politics

Contents

Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; When was modernism?; What was modernism?; Modernist poetry: T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of K. Alfred Prufrock'; Modernist prose: James Joyce's Ulysses; Chapter 1. Modernist Networks 1914-1928: Futurists, Imagists, Vorticists, Dadaists; London, 1914; New York City, 1917; Paris, 1922; 1928; Chapter 2. Modernism and Geography; Modernism and Realism; Dublin; Exiled Writing; Chapter 3. Sex, Obscenity, Censorship; Law and Literature; Modernism and Feminism; Sexuality; Chapter 4. Modernism and Mass Culture; Modernist authority; Cinema; Popular Fiction and Journalism; Chapter 5. Modernism and Politics; Revolution and Economics; War; Conclusion; Student Resources; Electronic Resources; Glossary; Questions for Discussion; Bibliography; Index.

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