| The Cambridge Companion to Modernism Revised Edition Contributor(s): Levenson, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521281253 ISBN-13: 9780521281256 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $36.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 808.801 |
| LCCN: 2011026298 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Levenson, Michael: - Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Virginia. |