The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Marshik |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107049261 |
This companion provides students and scholars alike with an interdisciplinary approach to literary modernism. Through essays written on a range of cultural contexts, this collection helps readers understand the significant changes in belief systems, visual culture, and pastimes that influenced, and were influenced by, the experimental literature published around 1890-1945.
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Levenson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1999-02-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521498661 |
In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Kalaidjian |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2005-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521829953 |
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Maren Tova Linett |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-09-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139825437 |
Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890–1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Vasudha Dalmia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521516250 |
A wide-ranging and truly interdisciplinary guide to understanding the relationship between India's colonial past and globalized present.
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Levenson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2011-09-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107010632 |
Including chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, this text provides both close analyses of individual works of modernism and a broader set of interpretive narratives.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2006-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521841321 |
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