Modernism

Whitworth, Michael H. (editor)

ISBN 10: 0631230785 / ISBN 13: 9780631230786

Published by Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, Oxford, etc., 2007

About this Item

2007.ix, 310pp. "This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism and presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments. 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." The book is in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modernism
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, Oxford, etc.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631230785
• ISBN 13: 9780631230786
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

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

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• 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).