This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. * Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject * Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements * Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon * Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

Book Information
ISBN 9780631230779
Author Michael H. Whitworth
Format Hardback
Page Count 324
Imprint Blackwell Publishers
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 612g