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- ISBN 9780631230779
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 2006
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.
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- A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
- Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
- Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
- Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
- Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
- Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
- Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).
