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Modernism

Michael H Whitworth editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:15th Dec '06

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This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.


  • A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  • Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  • Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  • Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  • Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
  • Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
  • Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

ISBN: 9780631230786

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 458g

320 pages