| Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies Contributor(s): Middleton, Tim (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415242371 ISBN-13: 9780415242370 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $2291.88 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2002 Annotation: This collection of resources gives students access to the most influential scholarship relating to modernism as a set of aesthetic practices and as a product of late modernity. While modernism is often narrowly seen in Anglo-American terms, the articles here pay close attention to the cross fertilization which occurred when modernist artists and writers drew upon indigenous traditions from Africa, Asia, and the Far East. The set also includes papers that explore how modernism was itself drawn upon in these non-western contexts, and writings that analyze the ways in which modernist work informs the practices of artists from outside the West. Themes covered include: * Definitions and redefinition of modernism in literary criticism from the 1900s to the present * The politics of modernism * Modernism in relation to previous modes and genres * Modernism in the U.S. and Europe * Other cultural manifestations of the modern, such as art, science, psychology, and philosophy |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy | Movements - General - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 820.911 |
| LCCN: 2002068156 |
| Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 1728 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As befits so notoriously ambiguous a term, 'modernism' may be studied in a wide variety of contexts. The term embraces subjects ranging from the new architectural practices of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, the innovative art of painters as diverse as Monet and Kandinsky, the drama of Strindberg and Jarry, the poetry of Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner and Gertrude Stein. This collection of resources provides readers with access to major debates relating to modernism as a set of aesthetic practices and as a product of (late) modernity. This collection offers an overview of the history of modernism as a critical concept in Anglo-American literary criticism from the 1890s to the present day. The emphasis is on the main currents of critical debate relating to Anglo-American modernism and the contents have been organised chronologically and are presented in their entirety without editorial matter, allowing readers to access the debates about Anglo-American modernism from a given epoch. These volume demonstrate that, far from being a reactionary or monolithic field, modernism was a richly diverse area of cultural activity and remains a dynamic field of critical inquiry. One of the main ways in which the collection seeks to offer this corrective is in its attention to the relationship between modernism and popular culture. |
