Includes bibliographical references, glossary, and index
Introduction. Answering the question : what is modernism? -- Plunging in -- Words, words, words : modern, modernism, modernity -- Periods, genres, models -- International anglophone modernisms -- Cultures of modernism -- Interpreting and changing. Marx -- Darwin -- Freud -- Nietzsche -- Saussure -- Einstein -- Genres and the arts. Novel -- Short story -- Poetry -- Drama -- Art movements -- Film -- Photography, dance and music -- Texts, contexts, intertexts. 'The struggle of becoming' : freedom and gender -- 'It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream ': epistemology and narration -- 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' : identity and war -- 'Who's passing for who?' : sexual and racial divisions -- 'History is a nightmare' : symbolism and language
