The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 9/15/2011
EAN 9780521281256, ISBN10: 0521281253
Paperback, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
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.
Introduction Michael Levenson
1. The metaphysics of modernism Michael Bell
2. The cultural economy of modernism Lawrence Rainey
3. The modernist novel David Trotter
4. Modern poetry James Longenbach
5. Modernism in drama Christopher Innes
6. The politics of culture Sara Blair
7. Modernism and religion Pericles Lewis
8. Mass culture Allison Pease
9. Modernism and gender Marianne DeKoven
10. Musical motives Daniel Albright
11. The visual arts Glen MacLeod
12. Film Michael Wood
13. Colonial modernism Elleke Boehmer and Steven Matthews
Further reading
Index.