The Cambridge companion to modernism / edited by Michael Levenson.
Contributor(s): Levenson, Michael H., (Michael Harry Levenson).
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge companions to literature.Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, c1999. [reprint 2006]Edition: First South Asian edition. 2006.Description: xvii, 246 p. : fig. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0521697654; 9780521697651.Subject(s): Modernism (Literature) | Modernism (Art)DDC classification: 808.80112 Summary: "This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture"-- Provided by publisher.Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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