Modernisms : a literary guide / Peter Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholls, Peter, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xiii, 406 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Ironies of the Modern

Breaking the Rules: Symbolism in France

Decadence and the Art of Death

Paths to the Future

A Metaphysics of Modernity: Marinetti and Italian Futurism

Other Spaces: French Cubism and Russian Futurism

Cruel Structures: The Development of Expressionism

Modernity and the `Men of 1914'

At a Tangent: Other Modernisms

African American Modernism

From Fantasy to Structure: Dada and Neo-Classicism

Other Times: The Narratives of High Modernism

Death and Desire: The Surrealist Adventure

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-391) and index.

ISBN:

9780230506756

0230506755

0230506763

9780230506763

OCLC:

244481330