Rethinking modernism / edited by Marianne Thormählen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thormählen, Marianne, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Great Britain.

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

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

Around 1970, scholars adopted the term "modernism" as a designation for the radical changes that took place in Anglo-American literature in the early twentieth century. The concept lent prestige to works and authors associated with it, encouraging the developments of a vast body of criticism while blocking academic recognition of literature to which it did not readily apply. This book challenges the concept of modernism, testing its viability in searching analyses of individual texts, writers and processes.

Notes:

Based on presentations made at a 3 day symposium held in Sept. 2000 in Lund, Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-273) and index.

ISBN:

1403911800

OCLC:

51653315