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Focuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237436
ISBN
9780812237436
Condition: New

€ 82.03

Paperback. Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192804419
ISBN
9780192804419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138931626
ISBN
9781138931626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.27

Paperback. An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy. Editor(s): McFarlane, James Walter; Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 688 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140138320
ISBN
9780140138320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.42

Hardcover. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230779
ISBN
9780631230779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.85

Paperback. * A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism * Helps students to engage with the major debates surrounding literary modernism * Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments * Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230786
ISBN
9780631230786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.03

Paperback. The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism. Editor(s): Begam, Richard; Moses, Michael Valdez. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340386
ISBN
9780822340386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.41

Hardback. This book examines the concept of nature in the poetry of Nim\#137 Yushij (1895-1960), the founder of modern Persian poetry. The study discusses how nature is used both as an ideological device for new metrics, and as a source of inspiriation for nature poetry. Num Pages: 144 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761808626
ISBN
9780761808626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.30

Paperback. An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930's. Editor(s): Coughlan, Patricia; Davis, Alex. Series: Poetry/literary criticism. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540. 318pp. A significant re-evaluation of the work of the poets of the 1930's who turned to European and Anglo-American modernism for their formal and thematic inspiration
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cork University Press
Edition
New
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
9781859180617
ISBN
9781859180617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930's. Editor(s): Coughlan, Patricia; Davis, Alex. Series: Poetry/literary criticism. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004380
ISBN
9781859180617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses remakes the relationship between world and representation. Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications in the work of writers who were self-consciously experimental. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB; HRQC5; HRQM2; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627707
ISBN
9780748627707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.86

Hardcover. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528. Fine in fine dustjacket
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
AIAA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
SKU
KTJ0049487
ISBN
9780333918845
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 25.00

Paperback. This work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the context of a broader intellectual history. Num Pages: 440 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: AV; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226012674
ISBN
9780226012674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.51

Hardback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107083882
ISBN
9781107083882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.44

Hardback. This captivating book-the first of its kind-will appeal to scholars of literature, music, theater, and modernity as well as to sophisticated opera lovers everywhere. Editor(s): Begam, Richard; Smith, Matthew Wilson. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 392 pages, 32, 32 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVGC9; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 324 x 32. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420622
ISBN
9781421420622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.69

Hardback. Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 208 x 24. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230231627
ISBN
9780230231627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.07
€ 34.49

Paperback. Figures such as E M Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form, function, and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. This study reveals the personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers, interior designers and architects. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231133050
ISBN
9780231133050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.08

hardcover. Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 675.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802099570
ISBN
9780802099570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.29

Paperback. Baker perceives the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. Num Pages: 142 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 146 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226035253
ISBN
9780226035253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.51

hardcover. This book argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107136076
ISBN
9781107136076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313489
ISBN
9780822313489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Paperback. This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett. Editor(s): Innes, Christopher; Marker, Frederick J. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
1st
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802082060
ISBN
9780802082060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.16

Hardback. Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century. Series: Literary Modernism Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292723399
ISBN
9780292723399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Kiely, Robert. Num Pages: 272 pages. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674580664
ISBN
9780674580664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.32

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