Blasphemous modernism : the 20th-century word made flesh

Blasphemous modernism : the 20th-century word made flesh / Steve Pinkerton.

'Blasphemous Modernism' argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers forged the literature of modernism from...

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Main Author: Pinkerton, Steve, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
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Summary:'Blasphemous Modernism' argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers forged the literature of modernism from the idiom of blasphemy.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2017.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190627584
0190627581
9780190627577
0190627573
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2017).

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