Ebook: Modernism - keywords: a guide to literature and culture

Author: Peat Alexandra, Hammond Adam, Cuddy-Keane Melba

Series: Keywords in literature and culture
Year: 2013
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
City: Malden;MA
Language: English
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07.02.2024

Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in “written modernism,” tracking cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of change.

Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing cultural thought at the heart of modernism

Goes beyond constructions of “plural modernisms” to reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a simultaneous and interlocking mix

Draws from a vast compilation of more than a thousand sources, ranging from vernacular prose to experimental literary forms

Spans the “long” modernist period, from its incipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath

Approaches English written modernism in its own terms, tempering explanations of modernism often derived from...

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