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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 bro...

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Main Author: Mahaffey, Vicki
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Subjects:
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
Fiction > Appreciation > English-speaking countries.
Books and reading > English-speaking countries.
Authors and readers.
Reader-response criticism.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 writ.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 242 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-230) and index.
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