Modernism /
This work provides an authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last 100 years, which explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the novel, poetry and drama.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008 [reprint 2010].
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | The new critical idiom
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Answering the question : what is modernism?
- Plunging in
- Words, words, words : modern, modernism, modernity
- Periods, genres, models
- International anglophone modernisms
- Interpreting and changing. Marx
- Darwin
- Freud
- Nietzsche
- Saussure
- Einstein
- Genres, art and film. Novel
- Short story
- Poetry
- Drama
- Art movements
- Film
- Texts, contexts, intertexts. 'The struggle of becoming' : freedom and gender
- 'It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream ': epistemology and narration
- 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' : identity and war
- 'Who's passing for who?' : sexual and racial divisions
- 'History is a nightmare' : symbolism and language.
