Description
This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.
About the Author
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).
Book Information
ISBN 9780631230779
Author Michael H. Whitworth
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 581g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 23mm
- 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.
About the Author
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).
Book Information
ISBN 9780631230779
Author Michael H. Whitworth
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 581g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 23mm
