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Modernism

A Short Introduction

David Ayers author

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