02655nam 2200613 450 991083049900332120221128133513.01-281-31078-697866113107830-470-70126-90-470-77572-60-470-77686-2(CKB)1000000000405257(EBL)351294(OCoLC)476171554(SSID)ssj0000204629(PQKBManifestationID)11168585(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204629(PQKBWorkID)10189591(PQKB)11329031(MiAaPQ)EBC351294(MiAaPQ)EBC6976385(Au-PeEL)EBL6976385(EXLCZ)99100000000040525720221128d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModernist literature challenging fictions /Vicki MahaffeyMalden, Massachusetts :Blackwell Pub.,[2007]©20071 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-631-21306-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 oModernism (Literature)Reader-response criticismAuthors and readersModernism (Literature)Reader-response criticism.Authors and readers.823.91209113Mahaffey Vicki533590MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830499003321Modernist literature4119389UNINA