The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

Author: Michael Levenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010632
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
Including chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, this text provides both close analyses of individual works of modernism and a broader set of interpretive narratives.

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.

The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism

Author: Pericles Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521199417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
A broad, accessible account of European modernism as a truly cosmopolitan movement.

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

Author: Morag Shiach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185444X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel

Author: Joshua L. Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107083958
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

Author: Maren Tova Linett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890–1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521648400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism

Author: Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

Author: Michael Levenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.