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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art.

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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 cultureBroad in scope and comprehensive in coverageIncludes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the AtlanticBrings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and artFeatures 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching GodPays close attention to both British and American modernism

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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art. At its heart are 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God . The more than 60 contributors include some of the most distinguished modernist scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage, this Companion combines a thorough 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 these literary monuments. For this reason, both readers new to the subject and those who are already familiar with it will find the Companion a valuable reference to which they will return time and again.

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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art. At its heart are 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God . The more than 60 contributors include some of the most distinguished modernist scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage, this Companion combines a thorough 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 these literary monuments. For this reason, both readers new to the subject and those who are already familiar with it will find the Companion a valuable reference to which they will return time and again.

Author Biography

David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at Oxford University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernist literature, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of Lawrence's Women in Love (1998), Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006), and the Penguin Classics editions of Waugh's Decline and Fall (2001) and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor of A Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and is Victorian and Modern Literature Editor of the Review of English Studies. Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College, California. He has written and edited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernist literature and culture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, and has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is series editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature & Culture series published by Oxford University Press.

Table of Contents

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

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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art. At its heart are 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce s Ulysses to Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God . The more than 60 contributors include some of the most distinguished modernist scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage, this Companion combines a thorough 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 these literary monuments. For this reason, both readers new to the subject and those who are already familiar with it will find the Companion a valuable reference to which they will return time and again.

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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

Details ISBN1405188227 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Year 2008 ISBN-10 1405188227 ISBN-13 9781405188227 Format Paperback Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Author Kevin J.H. Dettmar Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar Birth 1955 Short Title COMPANION TO MODERNIST LITERAT Media Book Illustrations black & white illustrations Edition 1st DEWEY 820.9 Publication Date 2008-10-03 UK Release Date 2008-10-03 NZ Release Date 2008-10-03 US Release Date 2008-10-03 Pages 624 Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9780631204350 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2008-10-02 Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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