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Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions

By Vicki Mahaffey

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0631213074, 9780631213079, 0631213066, 9781405172813, 9780631213062, 9780470776865
Open Library ID
OL22746360M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2227584 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
264\264
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Литературоведение;История литературы (всеобщая)

Description

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 writers.

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