Introduces students to a wide range of modernist
writers and critical debates in modernism studies.
Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James
Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers
such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, the guide takes
students through a wide-ranging modernist literary
landscape. It considers how the publishing networks and
collaborative projects which connected writers in the
period were central to the creation of English-language
modernism. It also introduces students to recent
critical debates in modernism studies, with separate
chapters on modernism and the writing of geography and
exile, the relationship between modernism, obscenity and
literary censorship, and modernism and mass culture -
with a particular focus on the modernist interest in
film - and modernism and politics. The book also
considers the changing meaning of the word modernism
through twentieth and twenty-first century criticism.
Key Features: *Introduces a wide range of modernist
writers, including familiar authors such as T. S. Eliot,
James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis and less
canonical figures such as H.D.,Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes
and Laura Riding *Modernism is presented as an extensive
literary landscape, something that has featured
significantly in recent critical discussions of
modernism *Introduces students to modernist techniques
and to recent debates *Shows how English-language
modernism emerged, and connects this to recent debates
about modernist publishing and networks Key Words:
Modernism, Modernist Literature, Publishing, Obscenity,
Censorship, Mass Culture, Politics |
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