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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790240803321

Autore

Potter Rachel (Rachel C.)

Titolo

Modernist literature [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Potter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-7486-3433-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh critical guides to literature

Disciplina

809.9

809.9112

820.9/112

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 Modernist Networks, 1914-28: Futurists, Imagists, Vorticists, Dadaists; Chapter 2 Modernism and Geography; Chapter 3 Sex, Obscenity, Censorship; Chapter 4 Modernism and Mass culture; Chapter 5 Modernism and Politics; Conclusion; Student resources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies.Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, the guide takes students through a wide-ranging modernist literary landscape. It considers how the publishing networks and collaborative projects which connected writers in the period were central to the creation of English-language modernism. It also introduces students to recent critical debates in modernism studies, with separate chapters on modernism an