Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

Name: Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
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ISBN: 9780521535274

ISBN-10: 0521535271

ISBN-13: 9780521535274

Edition: 2007

Authors: Pericles Lewis

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More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative…

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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Pericles Lewis is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.



List of illustrations


List of tables


Abbreviations and editions used


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction


Crisis of representation


Modern times


Hermeneutics of suspicion


Making it new



Origins



Trials of modernity


Flaubert, realism, and naturalism


Baudelaire, decadence, symbolism, and impressionism


Wilde and aestheticism


English literature at the turn of the twentieth century



Primitivists and modernizers


Edwardians


Primitivists


Modernizers


"On or about December, 1910"



The avant-garde and high modernism


The avant-garde moment


English literature and the First World War


Inventing modernism


High modernism



Genres



Poetry


Tradition


Voice


Words at liberty


Epic



Prose fiction


Consciousness


Time


Narative


Fiction



Drama


Plot


Character


Theater


Ideas



Fate



Literature and politics


Communism and the left


Weimar Germany


Fascism, Nazism, and the right


Politicizing art


Chronology


Notes


Index