| Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Goldman, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333696204 ISBN-13: 9780333696200 Publisher: Red Globe Press OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: "Modernism, 1910-1945" explores and celebrates the rise and development of modernist and avant-garde literatures and theories of this particular period, from Imagism to the Apocalypse movement. Jane Goldman charts transitions in writing, reading, performing and publishing practices, and in international groupings and regroupings of writers and artists, and engages with, as well as unsettles, the retrospective and homogenizing term Modernism that labels the era. Goldman introduces students to the work of many canonical high modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the work of other important modernist figures, such as Nathanael West, Kurt Schwitters and the Harlem Renaissance poets. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 820.911 |
| LCCN: 2003054923 |
| Series: Transitions |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.44" W x 8.68" (1.13 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modernism, 1910-1945 explores and celebrates the rise and development of Modernist and Avant-Garde literatures and theories of this particular period, from Imagism to the Apocalypse movement. Jane Goldman charts transitions in writing, reading, performing and publishing practices, and in international groupings and re-groupings of writers and artists, and interrogates the term 'Modernism'. Goldman introduces students to the work of many canonical high modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the work of other important modernist figures, such as Nathanael West, Kurt Schwitters and the Harlem Renaissance poets. |