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The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Vassili Kolocotroni
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Description for The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Hardback. Covers the movements, concepts and figures associated with European modernism. This title provides a ranging resource both to the canon of 'High Modernism' and to theoretical perspectives that have contributed to the renewed interest in Modernism and have lent it renewed range and critical rigour in the early twenty-first century. Editor(s): Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Taxidou, Olga. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: ACX; DSBH; GBC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
An interdisciplinary reference source of the critical, cultural and political practices associated with modernismMuch of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and intersects literary, aesthetic, political and cultural terms that in one way or another came into being through the debates, conflicts, co-operations, experiments individual and collective that characterised modernism. In concise entries from international experts, it presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals (at once aesthetic and political), highlighting their genealogy, ... Read more
An interdisciplinary reference source of the critical, cultural and political practices associated with modernismMuch of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and intersects literary, aesthetic, political and cultural terms that in one way or another came into being through the debates, conflicts, co-operations, experiments individual and collective that characterised modernism. In concise entries from international experts, it presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals (at once aesthetic and political), highlighting their genealogy, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748637027
SKU
V9780748637027
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About Vassili Kolocotroni
Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University of Glasgow. Olga Taxidou is Reader in English Literature and Drama at the University of Edinburgh.
Reviews for The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
The book coheres beautifully and highlights the paradox of modernism's opposition to and reliance on past traditions.
A. C. Stout, CHOICE
A. C. Stout, CHOICE