Whitworth, Michael H. (ed.) Modernism Blackwell Guides to Criticism
1. Edition December 2006 35.90 Euro 2006. 320 Pages, Softcover ISBN 978-0-631-23078-6 - John Wiley & Sons
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Detailed description This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.
* A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
* Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
* Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
* Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
* Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
* Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
* Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.
From the contents Acknowledgements.
Note on the Texts.
Part I.
Introduction.
Part II.
1. Modernism and Romanticism.
Romantic Image.
Frank Kermode.
'Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?'.
Marjorie Perloff.
2. Realism and Formalism.
The Ideology of Modernisim.
George Lucas.
Reconciliation Under Duress.
Theodor Adorno.
3. Modernism and the Avant-Garde.
Adorno: A Critical Introduction.
Simon Jarvis.
Theory of the Avant-Garde.
Peter Burger.
4. Modernism, the Masses, and the Culture Industry.
'Mass Culture as Woman'.
Andreas Huyssen.
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: A 'Black and Grinning Music'.
David Chinitz.
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: Down at Tom's Place.
David Chinitz.
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: An 'Advant-Garde' Program.
David Chinitz.
5. Modernity and the City.
'The Metropolis and Mental Life'.
Georg Simmel.
The Mire of Macadam.
Marshall Berman.
'The Invisible Flaneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity.
Janet Wolff.
6. Regendering Modernism.
'A Tangled Mesh of Modernists' (diagram).
Bonnie Kime Scott.
'Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter from Paris.
Shari Benstock.
'Modernism and Modernity: Engendering Literary History'.
