A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

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Gebonden, 616 blz. | Engels
John Wiley & Sons | e druk, 2005
ISBN13: 9780631204350
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The
Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.

An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture
Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage
Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic
Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art
Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce s Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Pays close attention to both British and American modernism

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ISBN13:9780631204350
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:616

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Notes on Contributors xi
<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Kevin J. H. Dettmar</p>
<p>PART I Origins, Beginnings, and the New 7</p>
<p>1 Philosophy 9<br /> Jean–Michel Rabat&eacute;</p>
<p>2 Religion 19<br /> Pericles Lewis</p>
<p>3 Politics 29<br /> Tyrus Miller</p>
<p>4 The Physical Sciences 39<br /> Michael H. Whitworth</p>
<p>5 The Biological Sciences 50<br /> Angelique Richardson</p>
<p>6 Technology 66<br /> Sara Danius</p>
<p>7 Psychology 79<br /> Perry Meisel</p>
<p>8 Anthropology 92<br /> Patricia Rae</p>
<p>9 Obscenity and Censorship 103<br /> David Bradshaw</p>
<p>10 Language 113<br /> R. M. Berry</p>
<p>11 Geography 123<br /> Nico Israel</p>
<p>12 Publishing 133<br /> Mark S. Morrisson</p>
<p>13 Sex and Sexuality 143<br /> Liesl Olson</p>
<p>PART II Movements 153</p>
<p>14 Literary Symbolism 155<br /> Marshall C. Olds</p>
<p>15 Dada 163<br /> Robert Short</p>
<p>16 Futurism 169<br /> Tyrus Miller</p>
<p>17 Vorticism 176<br /> Alan Munton</p>
<p>18 Imagism 183<br /> Patrick McGuinness</p>
<p>19 Surrealism 189<br /> Mary Ann Caws</p>
<p>20 Expressionism 198<br /> Richard Murphy</p>
<p>21 Literary Impressionism 204<br /> Max Saunders</p>
<p>PART III Modernist Genres and Modern Media 213</p>
<p>22 The Novel 215<br /> Jesse Matz</p>
<p>23 Poetry 227<br /> Adam Parkes</p>
<p>24 Drama 237<br /> Stephen Watt</p>
<p>25 The Visual Arts 244<br /> Richard Weston</p>
<p>26 Film 250<br /> Laura Marcus</p>
<p>27 Music 258<br /> Bernard Gendron</p>
<p>28 Dance 265<br /> Susan Jones</p>
<p>29 Architecture 272<br /> Lee Morrissey</p>
<p>30 Photography 278<br /> Maggie Humm</p>
<p>PART IV Readings 285</p>
<p>31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger! 287<br /> Steven Matthews</p>
<p>32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood 297<br /> Rebecca Loncraine</p>
<p>33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy 306<br /> H. Porter Abbott</p>
<p>34 Joseph Conrad:&nbsp;Heart of Darkness 314<br /> Brian W. Shaffer</p>
<p>35 T. S. Eliot:&nbsp;The Waste Land 324<br /> David Chinitz</p>
<p>36 William Faulkner:&nbsp;The Sound and the Fury 333<br /> Karl F. Zender</p>
<p>37 F. Scott Fitzgerald:&nbsp;The Great Gatsby 342<br /> Ruth Prigozy</p>
<p>38 Ford Madox Ford:&nbsp;The Good Soldier 350<br /> Sara Haslam</p>
<p>39 The Poetry of H. D. 358<br /> Diana Collecott</p>
<p>40 Langston Hughes:&nbsp;Fine Clothes to the Jew 367<br /> Edward Brunner</p>
<p>41 Zora Neale Hurston:&nbsp;Their Eyes Were Watching God 376<br /> Cheryl A. Wall</p>
<p>42 James Joyce:&nbsp;Ulysses 384<br /> Michael Patrick Gillespie</p>
<p>43 D. H. Lawrence:&nbsp;Women in Love 393<br /> Joyce Piell Wexler</p>
<p>44 Wyndham Lewis:&nbsp;Tarr 402<br /> Andrzej Gasiorek</p>
<p>45 Mina Loy:&nbsp;Lunar Baedecker 411<br /> Michael Thurston</p>
<p>46 Marianne Moore:&nbsp;Observations 422<br /> Catherine Paul</p>
<p>47 Ezra Pound:&nbsp;Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 431<br /> Michael Coyle</p>
<p>48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage 440<br /> Laura Marcus</p>
<p>49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives 450<br /> Jaime Hovey</p>
<p>50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 459<br /> Jonathan Levin</p>
<p>51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts 469<br /> Jay Martin</p>
<p>52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson 478<br /> Daniel Morris</p>
<p>53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 486<br /> Pamela L. Caughie</p>
<p>54 Richard Wright: Native Son 499<br /> Bill V. Mullen</p>
<p>55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) 507<br /> Edward Larrissy</p>
<p>56 Modernist Critical Prose 516<br /> Gary S. Wihl</p>
<p>PART V Other Modernisms 525</p>
<p>57 Modernism and Race 527<br /> Martha Jane Nadell</p>
<p>58 Modernism and Gender 535<br /> Bonnie Kime Scott</p>
<p>59 Modernism Queered 542<br /> Laura Doan and Jane Garrity</p>
<p>60 Postcolonial Modernism 551<br /> Bart Moore–Gilbert</p>
<p>61 Global Modernisms 558<br /> Melba Cuddy–Keane</p>
<p>62 Postmodernism 565<br /> Bran Nicol</p>
<p>Epilogue: Modernism Now 571<br /> Marjorie Perloff</p>
<p>Index&nbsp;579</p>

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