Modernist Literature
Modernist Literature2006
About this book
This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys. Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.
Details
- First published
- 2006
- OL Work ID
- OL3360277W
Subjects
Authors and readersTheoryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)FictionBooks and readingAppreciationModernisme (cultuur)BellettrieEnglish fictionAmerican fictionReader-response criticismLiterature, modern, history and criticismEnglish fiction--history and criticism--theory, etcEnglish fiction--20th century--history and criticism--theory, etcAmerican fiction--history and criticism--theory, etcAmerican fiction--20th century--history and criticism--theory, etcModernism (literature)