A Companion to Modernist Literature And Culture

by Bradshaw, David; Dettmar, Kevin J. H.

• ISBN13: 9780631204350
• ISBN10: 0631204350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

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	1	(6)
Kevin J.H. Dettmar
PART I Origins, Beginnings, and the New	7	(146)
1 Philosophy	9	(10)
Jean-Michel Rabaté
2 Religion	19	(10)
Pericles Lewis
3 Politics	29	(10)
Tyrus Miller
4 The Physical Sciences	39	(11)
Michael H. Whitworth
5 The Biological Sciences	50	(16)
Angelique Richardson
6 Technology	66	(13)
Sara Danius
7 Psychology	79	(13)
Perry Meisel
8 Anthropology	92	(11)
Patricia Rae
9 Obscenity and Censorship	103	(10)
David Bradshaw
10 Language	113	(10)
R.M. Berry
11 Geography	123	(10)
Nico Israel
12 Publishing	133	(10)
Mark S. Morrisson
13 Sex and Sexuality	143	(10)
Liesl Olson
PART II Movements	153	(60)
14 Literary Symbolism	155	(8)
Marshall C. Olds
15 Dada	163	(6)
Robert Short
16 Futurism	169	(7)
Tyrus Miller
17 Vorticism	176	(7)
Alan Munton
18 Imagism	183	(6)
Patrick McGuinness
19 Surrealism	189	(9)
Mary Ann Caws
20 Expressionism	198	(6)
Richard Murphy
21 Literary Impressionism	204	(9)
Max Saunders
PART III Modernist Genres and Modern Media	213	(72)
22 The Novel	215	(12)
Jesse Matz
23 Poetry	227	(10)
Adam Parkes
24 Drama	237	(7)
Stephen Watt
25 The Visual Arts	244	(6)
Richard Weston
26 Film	250	(8)
Laura Marcus
27 Music	258	(7)
Bernard Gendron
28 Dance	265	(7)
Susan Jones
29 Architecture	272	(6)
Lee Morrissey
30 Photography	278	(7)
Maggie Humm
PART IV Readings	285	(240)
31 W.H. Auden: Look, Stranger!	287	(10)
Steven Matthews
32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood	297	(9)
Rebecca Loncraine
33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy	306	(8)
H. Porter Abbott
34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness	314	(10)
Brian W. Shaffer
35 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land	324	(9)
David Chinitz
36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury	333	(9)
Karl F. Zender
37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby	342	(8)
Ruth Prigozy
38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier	350	(8)
Sara Haslam
39 The Poetry of H.D.	358	(9)
Diana Collecott
40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew	367	(9)
Edward Brunner
41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God	376	(8)
Cheryl A. Wall
42 James Joyce: Ulysses	384	(9)
Michael Patrick Gillespie
43 D.H. Lawrence: Women in Love	393	(9)
Joyce Piell Wexler
44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr	402	(9)
Andrzej Gasiorek
45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker	411	(11)
Michael Thurston
46 Marianne Moore: Observations	422	(9)
Catherine Paul
47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	431	(9)
Michael Coyle
48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage	440	(10)
Laura Marcus
49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives	450	(9)
Jaime Hovey
50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium	459	(10)
Jonathan Levin
51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts	469	(9)
Jay Martin
52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson	478	(8)
Daniel Morris
53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse	486	(13)
Pamela L. Caughie
54 Richard Wright: Native Son	499	(8)
Bill V. Mullen
55 W.B. Yeats: The Tower (1928)	507	(9)
Edward Larrissy
56 Modernist Critical Prose	516	(9)
Gary S. Wihl
PART V Other Modernisms	525	(46)
57 Modernism and Race	527	(8)
Martha Jane Nadell
58 Modernism and Gender	535	(7)
Bonnie Kime Scott
59 Modernism Queered	542	(9)
Laura Doan and Jane Garrity
60 Postcolonial Modernism	551	(7)
Bart Moore-Gilbert
61 Global Modernisms	558	(7)
Melba Cuddy-Keane
62 Postmodernism	565	(6)
Bran Nicol
Epilogue: Modernism Now	571	(8)
Marjorie Perloff
Index	579