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Modernist literature : challenging fictions / Vicki Mahaffey.

By: Mahaffey, VickiContributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 242 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470775721; 0470775726; 9780470776865; 0470776862; 9781405172813; 1405172819Subject(s): English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries | Fiction -- Appreciation -- English-speaking countries | Books and reading -- English-speaking countries | Authors and readers | Reader-response criticism | LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | Modernisme (cultuur) | BellettrieGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernist literature.DDC classification: 823/.91209113 LOC classification: PR888.M63 | M35 2007ebOther classification: 17.76 Online resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

Why read challenging literature? -- Partnering: Holmes and Watson, author and reader, lover and loved, man and wife -- Window painting: the art of blocking understanding -- Watchman, what of the night?

Summary: 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 writ.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-230) and index.

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 writ.

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