Modernist literature: challenging fictions
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TextPublication details: USA Blackwell 2007Description: xxi,242pISBN: 0631213074Subject(s): English fiction-History and criticism | American fiction-History and criticism | Literature | Modernism (Literature) | Reader-response criticism | English-speaking countries | Authors and readers | Books and reading | Fiction--Appreciation | Literature, ModernDDC classification: 823.912 Summary: This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
-Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
-Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
-Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys.
-Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.
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Includes index.
This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
-Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
-Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
-Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys.
-Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.
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