This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debatessurrounding literary modernism.
* * A judicious selection of key critical works on literarymodernism
* Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to themost recent theoretical assessments
* Shows how modernist writers understood and constructedmodernism.
* Shows how succeeding generations have developed thoseconstructions and brought new interpretations to bear on thesubject
* Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization,and to other literary and cultural movements
* Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questionssurrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers witha limited knowledge of the modernist canon
* Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.
Michael H. Whitworth
American Novel Amerikanischer Roman Englische Literatur / Moderne Literature Literaturwissenschaft Modernism