A companion to modernist literature and culture / / edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J.H. Dettmar

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (618 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/112
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: BradshawDavid <1955-> DettmarKevin J. H. <1958->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I Origins, Beginnings, and the New; 1 Philosophy; 2 Religion; 3 Politics; 4 The Physical Sciences; 5 The Biological; 6 Technology; 7 Psychology; 8 Anthropology; 9 Obscenity and Censorship; 10 Language; 11 Geography; 12 Publishing; 13 Sex and Sexuality; PART II Movements; 14 Literary Symbolism; 15 Dada; 16 Futurism; 17 Vorticism; 18 Imagism; 19 Surrealism; 20 Expressionism; 21 Literary Impressionism; PART III Modernist Genres and Modern Media; 22 The Novel; 23 Poetry; 24 Drama ; 25 The Visual Arts26 Film; 27 Music; 28 Dance; 29 Architecture; 30 Photography; PART IV Readings; 31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger!; 32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood; 33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy; 34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; 35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land; 36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury; 37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby; 38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier; 39 The Poetry of H. D.; 40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew; 41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God; 42 James Joyce: Ulysses; 43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love; 44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr ; 45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker46 Marianne Moore: Observations; 47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; 48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage; 49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives; 50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium; 51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts; 52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson; 53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse; 54 Richard Wright: Native Son; 55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928); 56 Modernist Critical Prose; Part V Other Modernisms; 57 Modernism and Race; 58 Modernism and Gender; 59 Modernism Queered; 60 Postcolonial; 61 Global Modernisms; 62 Postmodernism; Epilogue: Modernism Now; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and cultureBroad in scope and comprehensive in coverageIncludes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the AtlanticBrings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to modernist literature and culture
• ISBN: 1-78268-620-7; 1-280-36187-5; 9786610361878; 1-4051-6537-5; 0-470-99633-1; 1-4051-5467-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910143447003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 39.