| Description |
xiv, 174 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave key concepts. Literature |
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Palgrave key concepts. Literature.
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| Contents |
1. Contexts: History, Politics, Culture -- Anthropology -- Censorship -- Cities and Urbanization -- Class -- Culture -- Empire -- Fascism -- Language -- Market -- Nationalism -- Psychology -- Race -- Religion -- Science and Technology -- Sex and Sexuality -- War -- Women and Gender -- 2. Texts: Themes, Issues, Concepts -- Aestheticism and Decadence -- Allusion -- Anti-Semitism -- Apocalypse -- Avant-Garde -- Bloomsbury -- Cinema, Influence of -- Consciousness, Stream of -- Dada and Surrealism -- Drama -- Epiphany -- Fragmentation -- Futurism -- Harlem Renaissance -- Imagism and Vorticism -- Impersonality -- Irish Literature -- Manifesto -- Memory -- Music, Influence of -- Primitivism -- Realism and Naturalism -- Violence -- 3. Criticism: Approaches, Theory, Practice -- Cultural Materialism/New Historicism -- Deconstruction -- Feminist and Gender Criticism -- Leavisite Criticism -- Marxist Criticism -- New Criticism -- Postcolonialism -- Postmodernism -- Poststructuralism |
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Psychoanalytic Criticism -- Structuralism -- Chronology |
| Summary |
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the great era of literary innovation that produced such giants as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot. Drawing on a wide selection of texts from 1890 to 1945, the volume covers the major figures studied while also introducing readers to all the essential movements and ideas of this exciting period."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
2008046051 |
| ISBN |
9780230551190 |
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