The Cambridge Companion to Modernism - Brossura

Levenson, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521281253 ISBN 13: 9780521281256

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture.

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Descrizione del libro:

This Companion is a comprehensive interdisciplinary appraisal of the modernist movement, with contributions from fourteen leading scholars. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music.

L'autore:

Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Virginia.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521281253
• ISBN 13: 9780521281256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 344