Whitworth Modernism

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77989-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debatessurrounding literary modernism.
* * A judicious selection of key critical works on literarymodernism
* Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to themost recent theoretical assessments
* Shows how modernist writers understood and constructedmodernism.
* Shows how succeeding generations have developed thoseconstructions and brought new interpretations to bear on thesubject
* Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization,and to other literary and cultural movements
* Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questionssurrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers witha limited knowledge of the modernist canon
* Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitworth, Michael H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Note on the Texts.
Part I.
Introduction.
Part II.
1. Modernism and Romanticism.
Romantic Image.
Frank Kermode.
'Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?'.
Marjorie Perloff.
2. Realism and Formalism.
The Ideology of Modernisim.
George Lucas.
Reconciliation Under Duress.
Theodor Adorno.
3. Modernism and the Avant-Garde.
Adorno: A Critical Introduction.
Simon Jarvis.
Theory of the Avant-Garde.
Peter Bürger.
4. Modernism, the Masses, and the Culture Industry.
'Mass Culture as Woman'.
Andreas Huyssen.
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: A 'Black and GrinningMusic'.
David Chinitz.
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: Down at Tom's Place.
David Chinitz.
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: An 'Advant-Garde'Program.
David Chinitz.
5. Modernity and the City.
'The Metropolis and Mental Life'.
Georg Simmel.
The Mire of Macadam.
Marshall Berman.
'The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature ofModernity.
Janet Wolff.
6. Regendering Modernism.
'A Tangled Mesh of Modernists' (diagram).
Bonnie Kime Scott.
'Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter fromParis.
Shari Benstock.
'Modernism and Modernity: Engendering LiteraryHistory'.
Rita Felski.
7. Publishing Modernism.
'The Price of Modernism.
Lawrence Rainey.
8. Late Modernism.
'The Epistemology of Late Modernism.
Alan Wilde.
Late Modernism Poetics.
Anthony Mellors.
Further Reading.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).