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"Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated, expanded, a...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
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New critical idiom
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"Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs: - details the origins of modernism and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein - explores the radical changes which occurred in the arts, literature, drama, and f |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 240 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-233) and index. |
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9781138931626 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1138931624 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781138931619 (hardback : alkaline paper) 1138931616 (hardback : alkaline paper) 9781315679679 (e-book) 1315679671 (e-book) |
| Index Number: | NX454 |
| CLC: | I109.9 |
| Call Number: | I109.9/C537/3rd ed. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Answering the question : what is modernism? -- Plunging in -- Words, words, words : modern, modernism, modernity -- Periods, genres, models -- International anglophone modernisms -- Cultures of modernism -- Interpreting and changing. Marx -- Darwin -- Freud -- Nietzsche -- Saussure -- Einstein -- Genres and the arts. Novel -- Short story -- Poetry -- Drama -- Art movements -- Film -- Photography, dance and music -- Texts, contexts, intertexts. 'The struggle of becoming' : freedom and gender -- 'It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream ': epistemology and narration -- 'The |