| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 134 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Anglo-American Perspectives; "From Desire to Weariness and so to Desire again"; A Portrait of the English-speaking Irish Author as a Young Man; Learning by Rote; Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer; Part II: Beyond the Anglo-American World; 1912-1914; Urban Coexistence as a Modernist Experience in the Book of Disquiet, Ulysses, and Mrs. Dalloway; Poets in Glass Houses; Two Plays of the Absurd and the Sense of Dystopia; Index |
| Summary |
This collection commemorates the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism. The second decade of the twentieth century witnessed an extraordinary burst of creativity and inquiry which left an indelible mark in literature, music, and the visual arts, as well as in their respective theoretical frameworks. As with other moments of crisis, the period was exceptionally rich in innovation and experimentation. For literature and the arts, it was also a time of great clashes, both contextually, most obviously because authors were faced with the events of the Great War, and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism
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Literature & literary studies.
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C 1900 -.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Silva, Jorge Miguel Bastos da, 1971-
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Frias, Joana Matos
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| ISBN |
9781443898225 |
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1443898228 |
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