Rethinking Modernism [Hardcover]

Around 1970, scholars adopted the term 'modernism' as a designation for the radical changes that took place in Anglo-American literature in the early twentieth century. The concept lent prestige to works and authors associated with it, encouraging the developments of a vast body of criticism while blocking academic recognition of literature to which it did not readily apply. This book challenges the concept of modernism, testing its viability in searching analyses of individual texts, writers and processes.Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction Liberal Measures: Language, Modernism, and the Great War; V.B.Sherry Modernism, Anti-Mimesis, and the Professionalization of English Society; D.Trotter 'THE IMAGINATION': A Twentieth-Century Itinerary; L.Nyberg To Murder and Create: Ethics and Aesthetics in Levinas, Pound and Eliot; J.S.Brooker Modernism and the Georgians; M.Thorm?hlen Tribal Drums and the Dull Tom-Tom: Thoughts on Modernism and the Savage in Conrad and Eliot; C.Rawson Modernism and the Classical Tradition: The Examples of Pound and H.D.; L.Svensson D.H.Lawrence and the Meaning of Modernism; M.Bell Joyce and the Making of Modernism: The Question of Technique; D.Attridge 'Modernism', Poetry and Ireland; E.Longley The Disconsolate Chimera: T.S.Eliot and the Fixation of Modernism; S.Smith Shifting the Frame: Modernism in the Theatre; C.Innes Political Modernism and the Quest for Film Studies; E.Hedling Between Categories: Modernist and Postmodernist Appropriations of Wallace Stevens; S.Holander Postscript: So what about Postmodernism? Fredric Jameson vs Linda Hutcheon; G.Florby A Bibliography of Modernism IndexDEREK ATTRIDGE Leverhulme Research Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature, University of YorkMICHAEL BELL Professor of English at the University of WarwickJEWEL SPEARS BROOKER Professor of English at Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FloridaGUNILLA FLORBY Professor of English Literature at the University of GothenburgERIK HEDLING PrlÓK