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Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?
Vicki Mahaffey
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Description for Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?
Paperback. * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
- Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
- Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys.
- Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631213079
SKU
V9780631213079
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99-50
About Vicki Mahaffey
Vicki Mahaffey is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Award for teaching. Her previous publications include Reauthorizing Joyce (1988) and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experience (1998).
Reviews for Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?
"Ambitiously diverse and unsettling, a book that responds provocatively to the challenges it poses."
David Bradshaw, University of Oxford "In this sharp, thoughtful and clearly-written book, modernism is not simply a descriptive category pigeon-holing a literary period; it is made both more problematic (as when its ending is linked with the holocaust) and ... Read more
David Bradshaw, University of Oxford "In this sharp, thoughtful and clearly-written book, modernism is not simply a descriptive category pigeon-holing a literary period; it is made both more problematic (as when its ending is linked with the holocaust) and ... Read more