Introducing Postmodernism

Author: Richard Appignanesi
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781840465754
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. This expanded edition brilliantly elucidates this hall of mirrors with Richard Appignanesi's witty and easy-to-follow text and the inspired cartoonist Chris Garratt.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Christopher Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804413
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

Author: Pericles Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521828090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
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The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism

Author: Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317538102
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader to the essential history of the period including technology, religion, economy, class, gender and immigration. These contexts are woven of into discussions of many significant authors and texts from the period. Wagner-Martin brings her years of writing about American modernism to explicate poetry and drama as well as fiction and life-writing. Among the authors emphasized are Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams, Mike Gold, James T. Farrell, Clifford Odets, John Steinbeck and countless others. A clear and engaging introduction to an exciting period of literature, this is the ultimate guide for those seeking an overview of American Modernism.

Introducing Modernism

Author: Chris Rodrigues
Publisher: Graphic Guides
ISBN: 9781848311169
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A superb graphic guide to the shockwave of innovations that hit art, architecture, music, cinemas and literature during the early and mid-twentieth century.

Introducing Modernism

Author: Chris Rodrigues
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848319649
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 427

Book Description
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? Is Modernism over now? Chris Rodriguez and Chris Garratt's brilliant graphic guide is a brilliant exploration of the last century's most thrilling artistic work - and what it's really all about.

Gender in Modernism

Author: Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252074181
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 896

Book Description
Grouped into 21 thematic sections, this collection provides theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and gender in different directions. It provides an understanding of the complex intersections of gender with an array of social identifications.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

Author: Peter Howarth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052053
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

Modernism and Literature

Author: Mia Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415581646
Category : Modernism (Literature).
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Modernism is a key era in literary studies in which the reading and writing of literature was transformed. The Modernist movement smashed the boundaries of what was perceived as ' literary', with writers abandoning traditional conventions and drawing on a variety of very different influences from art to politics. Modernism is difficult to understand without an awareness of contemporary concerns, and Alan Friedman and Mia Carter offer a comprehensive guide to Modernism:An extensive introduction outlining the history and debates ...