Binding: Paperback
Description: Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century literary establishment and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated expanded and revised third edition charting modernism in its global and local contexts Peter Childs: details the origins of modernism and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin Marx Freud Nietzsche Saussure and Einstein explores the radical changes which occurred in the arts literature drama and film of the period traces 'modernism at work in literature especially in writings by a range of British Irish American and other Anglophone authors including James Joyce Virginia Woolf Samuel Beckett Nella Larsen Gertrude Stein Katherine Mansfield T. S. Eliot and many others explains recent critical interest in the culture and worldwide impact of modernism reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism. At once accessible and critically informed Modernism guides readers from first steps in the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural phenomena of the last centuries.
Title: Modernism
Author(s): Childs Peter (Newman University College Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138931626
Pages: 250 Pages
Publication Date: 9/27/2016
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Category: Literary Studies: From C 1900 -