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...
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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 writ Why read challenging literature? -- Partnering: Holmes and Watson, author and reader, lover and loved, man and wife -- Window painting: the art of blocking understanding -- Watchman, what of the night?
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...
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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 writ Why read challenging literature? -- Partnering: Holmes and Watson, author and reader, lover and loved, man and wife -- Window painting: the art of blocking understanding -- Watchman, what of the night?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-230) and index
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Why Read Challenging Literature?; 2: Partnering: Holmes and Watson, Author and Reader, Lover and Loved, Man and Wife; 3: Window Painting: The Art of Blocking Understanding; 4: Watchman, What of the Night?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
