Modernism: A Short Introduction
David Ayers
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Description for Modernism: A Short Introduction
Paperback. Presents an overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism. This work includes discussion of major authors, including T S Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H D. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature.
This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature.
- Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism.
- Covers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention.
- Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Blackwell Introductions to Literature
Condition
New
Weight
244g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405108539
SKU
V9781405108539
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99-50
About David Ayers
David Ayers is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Modern Poetry at the University of Kent. He is the author of Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (1992) and English Literature of the 1920s (1999).
Reviews for Modernism: A Short Introduction
‘David Ayers provides the reader with a series of interlacing readings – all of them original and provocative – of some major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers’s central theme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all its complex “modernist” manifestations. The theories of Benjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an important base for ... Read more