Modernism
A Short Introduction
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:11th Jun '04
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This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature.
- Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism.
- Covers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention.
- Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.
‘David Ayers provides the reader with a series of interlacing readings – all of them original and provocative – of some major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers’s central theme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all its complex “modernist” manifestations. The theories of Benjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an important base for understanding the great poetries and fictions of the period. But Modernism is first and foremost a book of close and acute readings of specific poems and novels – a book at once richly textured and yet also enjoyable to read.’
Marjorie Perloff
ISBN: 9781405108539
Dimensions: 229mm x 151mm x 12mm
Weight: 254g
168 pages