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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524669003321

Autore

Franke Damon <1968->

Titolo

Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / / Damon Franke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008

©2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 258 p.) : : ill. ;

Disciplina

820.9/112

Soggetti

Paganism in literature

Christian heresies in literature

Christian heretics - Great Britain - History

Religion and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Religion and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century

Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The heretical vintage of modernism -- Part I: The academy of modern heretics. A society of heretics; The early years of the Cambridge heretics, 1910-14; Aesthetics and the modern heretics -- Part II: Modernist literary heresies. Canonical transformations; Literary paganism and the heresy of syncretism; Fictions, figurative heresy, and the roots of English.