In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from
Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary
cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century.
Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional
contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual
works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to
further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism.
Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference
and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers
and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H.D. and Freud,
and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of
approaching Modernism, while the chapters' original contributions will send
scholars back to this volume for stimulating reevaluation.
CONTENT:
List of illustrations page viii
List of contributors ix
Chronology xi
Introduction i
MICHAEL LEVENSON
The metaphysics of Modernism 9
MICHAEL BELL
The cultural economy of Modernism 3 3
LAWRENCE RAINEY
The modernist novel 70
DAVID TROTTER
Modern poetry 100
JAMES LONGENBACH
Modernism in drama 130
CHRISTOPHER INNES
Modernism and the politics of culture 157
SARA BLAIR
Modernism and gender 174
MARIANNE DEKOVEN
The visual arts 194
GLEN MACLEOD
Modernism and film 217
MICHAELWOOD
Further reading 233
Index 241
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