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Tim Armstrong - Modernism: A Cultural History - 9780745629834 - V9780745629834
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Modernism: A Cultural History

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Description for Modernism: A Cultural History paperback. * The first volume in a new Polity literary studies series, 'Themes in 20th Century Literature and Culture'. * Combines a clear argument for those with no prior knowledge or experience of Modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level undergraduates and scholars. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres but also by its links with broader cultural areas in which the ‘modern’ is implicated and debated, and which inform its representational modes.

Modernism: A Cultural History explores modernism's struggle with a split temporality in which the old and the emerging new struggle, and in which, with the horror of the Great War, notions of a traumatic ... Read more

Students and scholars alike, of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature, will find the breadth, clarity and fresh approach of this text invaluable.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
259g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745629834
SKU
V9780745629834
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About Tim Armstrong
Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Reviews for Modernism: A Cultural History
"In seven pithy chapters Amrstrong manages to write illuminatingly on issues as various as history, time, psychoanalysis, trauma, war, nationality, economics, politics, gender, canonicity, mass culture, advertising, social reform, sexology, the occult and spiritualism, eugenics, subjectivity, technology (especially photography, cinema, and radio), race, and imperialism."
Andrzej Gasiorek and Peter Boxall, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory ... Read more

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