Modernism

by Childs *DO NOT USE*; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415415460
• ISBN10: 0415415462
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs: details the origins of the modernist movement and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein explores the radical changes which occurred in the literature, drama, art and film of the period traces 'modernism at work' in Anglophone literatures, especially in writings by a range of key figures including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and many others reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism. At once accessible and critically informed, Modernism guides readers from first steps in the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural movements of the last centuries.

Author Biography

Peter Childs is Professor in Modern English at the University of Gloucester.

Table of Contents

Interpreting and Changing	p. 37
Marx (1818-83)	p. 38
Darwin (1809-82)	p. 46
Freud (1856-1939)	p. 56
Nietzsche (1844-1900)	p. 62
Saussure (1957-1913)	p. 69
Einstein (1879-1955)	p. 72
Genres, Art and Film	p. 79
Novel	p. 80
Short Story	p. 91
Poetry	p. 99
Drama	p. 108
Art Movements	p. 114
Film	p. 127
Texts, Contexts, Intertexts	p. 133
'The Struggle of Becoming': Freedom and Gender	p. 134
'It Seems to Me I Am Trying to Tell You a Dream': Epistemology and Narration	p. 148
'These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins': Identity and War	p. 162
'Who's Passing for Who?': Sexual and Racial Divisions	p. 184
'History is a Nightmare': Symbolism and Language	p. 197
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