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Modernism
By Peter Childs
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In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:
details the origins of modernism and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein
explores the radical changes which occurred in the arts, literature, drama, and film of the period
traces 'modernism at work' in literature, especially in writings by a range of British, Irish, American and other Anglophone authors including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and many others
explains recent critical interest in the culture and worldwide impact of modernism
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 phenomena of the last centuries.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
3
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2016-09-27
Publication Date:
2016-09-27
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1138931624
ISBN13:
9781138931626
Weight:
272 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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