Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature
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- ISBN 9781780936413
- Weight: 957g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist literature one of the most vibrant areas of literary studies today. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature offers a comprehensive guide to current research in the field, covering topics including:
· The modernist everyday: emotion, myth, geographies and language scepticism
· Modernist literature and the arts: music, the visual arts, cinema and popular culture
· Textual and archival approaches: manuscripts, genetic criticism and modernist magazines
· Modernist literature and science: sexology, neurology, psychology, technology and the theory of relativity
· The geopolitics of modernism: globalization, politics and economics
· Resources: keywords and an annotated bibliography
Ulrika Maude is Reader in Modernism and 20th-Century Literature at the University of Bristol, UK. Her publications include Beckett, Technology and the Body (2009), The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (2015) and Samuel Beckett and Medicine (2019).
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He is Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
