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A companion to modernist literature and culture /

Contributor(s): Bradshaw, David, 1955- [editor] | Dettmar, Kevin J. H, 1958- [editor].
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture: 39.Publisher: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008Description: xxi, 593 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405188227.Other title: Modernist literature and culture.Subject(s): Modernism (Literature) | CriticismDDC classification: 809.9112
Contents:
Pt. 1. Origins, beginnings and the new: Philosophy / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Religion / Pericles Lewis -- Politics / Tyrus Miller -- The Physical sciences / Michael H. Whitworth -- The biological sciences -- Angelique Richardson -- Technology / Sara Danius -- Psychology / Perry Meisel -- Anthropology / Patricia Rae -- Obscenity and censorship / David Bradshaw -- Language / R. M. Berry -- Geography / Nico Israel -- Publishing / Mark S. Morrisson -- Sex and sexuality / Liesl Olson. pt. 2. Movement: Literary symbolism / Marshall C. Olds -- Dada / Robert Short -- Futurism / Tyrus Miller -- Voricism / Alan Munton -- Imagism / Patrick McGuiness -- Surrealism / Mary Ann Caws -- Expressionism / Richard Murphy
Literary impressionism / Max Saunders. pt. 3. Modernist genres and modern media -- The novel / Jesse Matz -- Poetry / Adam Parkes -- Drama / Stephen Watt -- The visual arts / Richard Weston -- Film / Laura Marcus -- Music / Bernerd Gendron -- Dance / Susan Jones -- Architecture / Lee Morrissey -- Photography / Maggie Humm. pt. 4. Readings: W.H. Auden: Look, stranger! / Steven Matthews -- Djuna Barnes: Nightwood / Rebecca Loncraine -- Samuel Beckett: Murphy / H. Porter Abbott -- Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness / Brian W. Shaffer -- T.S. Eliot: the waste land / David Chinitz -- William Faulkner: the sound and the fury / Karl F. Zender -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Great Gatsby / Ruth Prigozy
Ford Madox Ford: The Good soldier / Sara Haslam -- The poetry of H. D. / Diana Collecott -- Langston Hughes: Fine clothes to the Jew -- Edward Brunner -- Zora Neale Hurston: Their eyes were watching God / Cheryl A. Wall -- James Joyce: Ulysses / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- D. H. Lawrence: Women in love / Joyce Piell Wexler -- Wyndham Lewis: Tarr / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker / Michael Thurston -- Marianne Moore: Observations / Catherine Paul -- Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Michael Coyle -- Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage / Laura Marcus -- Gertrude Stein: Three Lives / Jamie Hovey -- Wallace Stevens: Harmonium / Jonathan Levin -- Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts / Jay Martin -- William Carlos Williams: Paterson Daniel Morris -- Virginia Woolf: To the lighthouse / Pamela L. Caughie
Richard Wright: Native Son / Bill V. Mullen -- W.B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) / Edward Larrissy -- Modernist critical prose / Gary S. Wihl. pt. 5. Other modernism: Modernism and race / Martha Jane Nadell -- Modernism and gender / Bonnie Kime Scott -- Modernism queered / Laura Doan and Jane Garrity -- Postcolonial modernism / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- Global modernisms / Melba Cuddy-Keane -- Postmodernism / Bran Nicol -- Epilogue: Modernism now / Marjorie Perloff.
Summary: This guide brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements and the genres of modernist writing and art. With many contributions from expert scholars, the companion features essays on some of the seminal texts of modernist literature.
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Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Origins, beginnings and the new: Philosophy / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Religion / Pericles Lewis -- Politics / Tyrus Miller -- The Physical sciences / Michael H. Whitworth -- The biological sciences -- Angelique Richardson -- Technology / Sara Danius -- Psychology / Perry Meisel -- Anthropology / Patricia Rae -- Obscenity and censorship / David Bradshaw -- Language / R. M. Berry -- Geography / Nico Israel -- Publishing / Mark S. Morrisson -- Sex and sexuality / Liesl Olson. pt. 2. Movement: Literary symbolism / Marshall C. Olds -- Dada / Robert Short -- Futurism / Tyrus Miller -- Voricism / Alan Munton -- Imagism / Patrick McGuiness -- Surrealism / Mary Ann Caws -- Expressionism / Richard Murphy

Literary impressionism / Max Saunders. pt. 3. Modernist genres and modern media -- The novel / Jesse Matz -- Poetry / Adam Parkes -- Drama / Stephen Watt -- The visual arts / Richard Weston -- Film / Laura Marcus -- Music / Bernerd Gendron -- Dance / Susan Jones -- Architecture / Lee Morrissey -- Photography / Maggie Humm. pt. 4. Readings: W.H. Auden: Look, stranger! / Steven Matthews -- Djuna Barnes: Nightwood / Rebecca Loncraine -- Samuel Beckett: Murphy / H. Porter Abbott -- Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness / Brian W. Shaffer -- T.S. Eliot: the waste land / David Chinitz -- William Faulkner: the sound and the fury / Karl F. Zender -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Great Gatsby / Ruth Prigozy

Ford Madox Ford: The Good soldier / Sara Haslam -- The poetry of H. D. / Diana Collecott -- Langston Hughes: Fine clothes to the Jew -- Edward Brunner -- Zora Neale Hurston: Their eyes were watching God / Cheryl A. Wall -- James Joyce: Ulysses / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- D. H. Lawrence: Women in love / Joyce Piell Wexler -- Wyndham Lewis: Tarr / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker / Michael Thurston -- Marianne Moore: Observations / Catherine Paul -- Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Michael Coyle -- Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage / Laura Marcus -- Gertrude Stein: Three Lives / Jamie Hovey -- Wallace Stevens: Harmonium / Jonathan Levin -- Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts / Jay Martin -- William Carlos Williams: Paterson Daniel Morris -- Virginia Woolf: To the lighthouse / Pamela L. Caughie

Richard Wright: Native Son / Bill V. Mullen -- W.B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) / Edward Larrissy -- Modernist critical prose / Gary S. Wihl. pt. 5. Other modernism: Modernism and race / Martha Jane Nadell -- Modernism and gender / Bonnie Kime Scott -- Modernism queered / Laura Doan and Jane Garrity -- Postcolonial modernism / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- Global modernisms / Melba Cuddy-Keane -- Postmodernism / Bran Nicol -- Epilogue: Modernism now / Marjorie Perloff.

This guide brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements and the genres of modernist writing and art. With many contributions from expert scholars, the companion features essays on some of the seminal texts of modernist literature.

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