European literature from romanticism to postmodernism : a reader in aesthetic practice / edited by Martin Travers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Travers, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

European literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--19th century--History and criticism.

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 348 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.

Summary:

This is the first-ever anthology in which the major representatives of recent European literature explain the assumptions and practices that characterize their writing. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school or movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism, and modernism through to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism.

Introductions to each chapter outline both the key thematic and stylistic features of these movements and the historical factors that helped shape the broader direction of European literature at that time. The excerpted texts are approached both as individual formulations of the goals and procedures, literary, aesthetic, and political, that characterized the work of these writers, and as key documents of the literary school or movement to which their authors belonged.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-343) and index.

ISBN:

0826447481

082644749X

OCLC:

43641119