Rethinking Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781349724031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 286 str.

Marianne Thormahlen; Marianne Thorm Hlen; M. Thormahlen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction Liberal Measures: Language, Modernism, and the Great War; V.B.Sherry Modernism, Anti-Mimesis, and the Professionalization of English Society; D.Trotter 'THE IMAGINATION': A Twentieth-Century Itinerary; L.Nyberg To Murder and Create: Ethics and Aesthetics in Levinas, Pound and Eliot; J.S.Brooker Modernism and the Georgians; M.Thormählen Tribal Drums and the Dull Tom-Tom: Thoughts on Modernism and the Savage in Conrad and Eliot; C.Rawson Modernism and the Classical Tradition: The Examples of Pound and H.D.; L.Svensson D.H.Lawrence and the Meaning of Modernism; M.Bell Joyce and the Making of Modernism: The Question of Technique; D.Attridge 'Modernism', Poetry and Ireland; E.Longley The Disconsolate Chimera: T.S.Eliot and the Fixation of Modernism; S.Smith Shifting the Frame: Modernism in the Theatre; C.Innes Political Modernism and the Quest for Film Studies; E.Hedling Between Categories: Modernist and Postmodernist Appropriations of Wallace Stevens; S.Holander Postscript: So what about Postmodernism? Fredric Jameson vs Linda Hutcheon; G.Florby A Bibliography of Modernism Index

O autorze

DEREK ATTRIDGE Leverhulme Research Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York MICHAEL BELL Professor of English at the University of Warwick JEWEL SPEARS BROOKER Professor of English at Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Florida GUNILLA FLORBY Professor of English Literature at the University of Gothenburg ERIK HEDLING Professor of Comparative Literature at Lund University STEFAN HOLANDER Assistant Professor of English at Finnmark University College, Norway CHRISTOPHER INNES Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture; Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto EDNA LONGLEY Professor of English at Queen's University, Belfast LENNART NYBERG Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lund University CLAUDE RAWSON Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University VINCENT B. SHERRY Professor of English at Villanova University, Pennsylvania STAN SMITH Research Professor in Literary Studies at Nottingham Trent University LARS-HÅKAN SVENSSON Professor of Language and Culture at the University of Linköping DAVID TROTTER Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London