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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830499003321

Autore

Mahaffey Vicki

Titolo

Modernist literature : challenging fictions / / Vicki Mahaffey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-281-31078-6

9786611310783

0-470-70126-9

0-470-77572-6

0-470-77686-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

823.91209113

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Reader-response criticism

Authors and readers

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

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Why Read Challenging Literature?; Part II: Readings; 2 Partnering: Holmes and Watson, Author and Reader, Lover and Loved, Man and Wife; 3 Window Painting: The Art of Blocking Understanding; 4 Watchman, What of the Night?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the 'high' Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys. Includes coverage o