Modernism

Name: Modernism
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ISBN: 9780415415460

ISBN-10: 0415415462

ISBN-13: 9780415415460

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Childs

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The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs: details the origins of the modernist movement and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein explores the radical changes which occurred in the literature, drama, art and film of the period traces 'modernism at work' in Anglophone literatures, especially in writings…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Interpreting and Changing


Marx (1818-83)


Darwin (1809-82)


Freud (1856-1939)


Nietzsche (1844-1900)


Saussure (1957-1913)


Einstein (1879-1955)



Genres, Art and Film


Novel


Short Story


Poetry


Drama


Art Movements


Film



Texts, Contexts, Intertexts


'The Struggle of Becoming': Freedom and Gender


'It Seems to Me I Am Trying to Tell You a Dream': Epistemology and Narration


'These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins': Identity and War


'Who's Passing for Who?': Sexual and Racial Divisions


'History is a Nightmare': Symbolism and Language