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Modernism

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Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 226 pages
A succinct but authoritative analysis of one of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. This guide explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the novel, poetry and drama.

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Review: Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

User Review  - Jennifer - Goodreads

Strong introduction to twentieth century modernism. Social, political and cultural changes that led to the modernist movement are well-explained, as are the philosophies of scientists and intellectuals who were major influencers. Read full review

Review: Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

User Review  - Lobstergirl - Goodreads

This is a highly readable and mostly jargon free introduction to the idea(s) of modernism for a reader who dips casually into the canon and could benefit from a few analytical tools. After briefly ... Read full review

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HIGH MODERNISM, LIBERAL HUMANISM, NEW CRITICISM, NEO-ARISTOTELIANISM
I use the term Modernism here to refer to a set of assumptions about literature and its interpretation which inform the work of a number of authors and ...
www.phillwebb.net/ History/ TwentiethCentury/ AngloAmerican/ Modernism.htm

The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Books
Modernism MODERNISM is a continuous project that subsumes within itself all the discourses of change and progress. Though as a movement of empirical inquiry ...
www.tribuneindia.com/ 2001/ 20011216/ spectrum/ book1.htm

Aspects of Modernism
Aspects of Modernism module details from Birmingham City University School of English.
www.lhds.bcu.ac.uk/ english/ aspects-of-modernism

Literary Encyclopedia: Modernism
Modernism is variously argued to be a period, style, genre, or combination of the above; but it is first of all a word; one which exists alongside cognate ...
www.litencyc.com/ php/ stopics.php?rec=true& UID=1219

Postgraduate pages :: reading lists
We will examine the canonical texts of high modernism both in the context of the wide range of ... 6) Modernism and femininity I: Working Women in the City. ...
www.leeds.ac.uk/ english/ postgrad/ pgmodules/ modmasscult.htm

Modernism in literature and history - Literary Themes & Ideas ...
Modernist literature is an opening up of the world in all of its forms - theoretically, philosophically, aesthetically, and pol... by Lili Melton Ph.D
www.helium.com/ items/ 809291-modernist-literature-opening-world

ENGL2084 -- Modernism and Short Fiction: School of English ...
"Modernism" is a name for the artistic revolutions that ushered in the twentieth century in Europe and America, and has also been applied to innovations in ...
www.hku.hk/ english/ engstudies/ courses/ 2084.htm

Introduction to Modernism: FFLT135UBCB. Certificates, diplomas and ...
Modernism is considered the defining style of the twentieth century. ... Thematically, we focus on the links between modernism, the city and the First World ...
www.bbk.ac.uk/ study/ ce/ outlines/ FFLT135UBCB.html

Recent Books of Interest - Modernism/Modernity 8:3
Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 296. $59.95. ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ modernism-modernity/ v008/ 8.3books_of_interest.html

FLUP - English Literature - Texts, Ideas and Institutions of Modernism
Moreover, they should have developed the conceptual means for analysing the influence and the importance of modernism in its literary, cultural and ...
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About the author (2000)

Peter Childs is Professor in Modern English at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of many books on literature post-1900, including The Twentieth Century in Poetry (1998).

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TitleModernism
The New Critical Idiom
AuthorPeter Childs
Editionreprint
PublisherRoutledge Chapman & Hall, 2000
ISBN0415196477, 9780415196475
Length226 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Literary Criticism / General
  
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