Modernism

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Guided by the historical semantics developed in RaymondWilliams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism:Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used withfrequency and urgency in "written modernism," trackingcultural and literary debates and transformative moments ofchange. * Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changingcultural thought at the heart of modernism * Goes beyond constructions of "plural modernisms" toreveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in asimultaneous and interlocking mix * Draws from a vast compilation of more than a thousand sources,ranging from vernacular prose to experimental literary forms * Spans the "long" modernist period, from itsincipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath * Approaches English written modernism in its own terms,tempering explanations of modernism often derived from Europeanpoets and painters * Models research techniques based on digital databases andcollaborative work in the humanities

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Melba Cuddy-Keane

Themen in »Modernism«

20th Century English Literature Englische Literatur / 20. Jhd. Englische Literatur / Moderne Literary Theory Literatur Literature Literaturtheorie Literaturwissenschaft Modernism

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"Everyone teaching literary modernism should spend time with this book." (James Gifford, University of Toronto Quarterly). "Their resources build from primary texts and through the ready resources in the Modernist Journals Project,JSTOR, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and so forth. The great merit of this approach is its adept management of primary and secondary materials, moving between the terms used in the modernist period, conceived here loosely as from 1880 to 1950, and the keywords used in scholarship. The result is a deliberately use-oriented collection of keywords for the study of modernism. The most immediate audience will be undergraduate students, but graduate-level and researcher use is also certain." (James Gifford, University of Toronto Quarterly). "Everyone teaching literary modernism should spend time with this book." (James Gifford, University of Toronto Quarterly). "Their resources build from primary texts and through the ready resources in the Modernist Journals Project,JSTOR, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and so forth. The great merit of this approach is its adept management of primary and secondary materials, moving between the terms used in the modernist period, conceived here loosely as from 1880 to 1950, and the keywords used in scholarship. The result is a deliberately use-oriented collection of keywords for the study of modernism. The most immediate audience will be undergraduate students, but graduate-level and researcher use is also certain." (James Gifford, University of Toronto Quarterly). "Modernism Keywords will be an indispensable resource from themoment it appears. The work is rigorous in theoreticalconception, broad in historical reach, and powerfully revisionaryin its implications for modernist study. It falls within thedistinguished legacy of Raymond Williams but also applies the mostcurrent methods to an expanding archive of modernisttexts. Scholars and students at every level will keep it closeat hand." --Michael Levenson, University of Virginia
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