Modernism [Paperback]

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• A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  
• Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  
• Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  
• Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  
• Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
  
• Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
  
• Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

Note on the Texts.

Part I.

Introduction.

Part II.

1. Modernism and Romanticism.

Romantic Image.

Frank Kermode.

‘Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?’.

Marjorie Perloff.

2. Realism and Formalism.

The Ideology of Modernisim.

George Lucas.

Reconciliation Under Duress.

Theodor Adorno.

3. Modernism and the Avant-Garde.

Adorno: A Critical Introduction.

Simon Jarvis.

Theory of the Avant-Garde.

Peter Bürger.