The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture.

Author: Michael Levenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/15/2011
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107010635

About the Author
Levenson, Michael: - Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Virginia.

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