A concise companion to modernism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Bradshaw

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.900914; 820.9112
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain
• Altri autori: BradshawDavid <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-265) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Concise Companion to Modernism; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Chronology; Introduction; 1 The Life Sciences:"Everybody nowadays talks about evolution "; 2 Eugenics:"They should certainly be killed "; 3 Nietzscheanism:"The Superman and the all-too-human "; 4 Anthropology:"The latest form of evening entertainment "; 5 Bergsonism:"Time out of mind "; 6 Psychoanalysis in Britain:"The rituals of destruction "; 7 Language:"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake "; 8 Technology:"Multiplied man " ; 9 The Concept of the State 1880 –1939:"The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well "10 Physics:"A strange footprint "; 11 Modernist Publishing:"Nomads and mapmakers "; 12 Reading:"'Mind hungers ' common and uncommon "; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This concise companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts which shaped it.
• Titolo autorizzato: A concise companion to modernism
• ISBN: 1-4051-6496-4; 1-78268-442-5; 1-282-37135-5; 9786612371356; 0-470-70261-3; 0-470-69350-9; 1-4051-4871-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202096403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.