Modernist literature

Modernist literature / Rachel Potter.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Potter, Rachel (Rachel C.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Series:Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature)
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • Introduction. When was modernism? ; What was modernism? ; Modernist poetry : T.S. Eliot's 'The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock' ; Modernist prose : James Joyce's Ulysses
  • Modernist networds, 1914-28 : futurists, imagists, vorticists, dadaists. London, 1914 ; New York, 1917 ; Paris, 1922 ; 1928
  • Modernism and geography. Modernism and realism ; Dublin ; Exiled writing
  • Sex, obscenity, censorship. Law and literature ; Modernism and feminism ; Sexuality
  • Modernism and mass culture. Modernist authority ; Cinema ; Popular fiction and journalism
  • Modernism and politics. Revolution and economics ; War
  • Conclusion
  • Student resources. Electronic resources ; Glossary ; Questions for discussion ; Guide to further reading.

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