Modernism
A Short Introduction
Blackwell Introductions to Literature
1. Auflage Juni 2004
168 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-0853-9
John Wiley & Sons
This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the
perspective of English and American literature.
* * Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of
literary Modernism.
* Covers both established works and those that have only recently
come to critical attention.
* Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S.
Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. H. D., Ezra Pound and Imagism.
2. T. S. Eliot and Modernist Reading.
3 .'The Waste Land', Nancy Cunard and Mina Loy.
4. Wallace Stevens and Romantic Legacy.
5. Wyndham Lewis: Genius and Art.
6. James Joyce: Ulysses and Love.
7. D. H. Lawrence: Jazz and Life.
8. Virginia Woolf: Art and Class.
9. The Modernity of Adorno and Benjamin.
10. The Poststructuralist Inflection.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
Introduction.
1. H. D., Ezra Pound and Imagism.
2. T. S. Eliot and Modernist Reading.
3 .'The Waste Land', Nancy Cunard and Mina Loy.
4. Wallace Stevens and Romantic Legacy.
5. Wyndham Lewis: Genius and Art.
6. James Joyce: Ulysses and Love.
7. D. H. Lawrence: Jazz and Life.
8. Virginia Woolf: Art and Class.
9. The Modernity of Adorno and Benjamin.
10. The Poststructuralist Inflection.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
'David Ayers provides the reader with a series of interlacing
readings - all of them original and provocative - of
some major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers's central
theme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all its
complex "modernist" manifestations. The theories of
Benjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an important
base for understanding the great poetries and fictions of the
period. But Modernism is first and foremost a book of close
and acute readings of specific poems and novels - a book at
once richly textured and yet also enjoyable to read.'
Marjorie Perloff
readings - all of them original and provocative - of
some major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers's central
theme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all its
complex "modernist" manifestations. The theories of
Benjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an important
base for understanding the great poetries and fictions of the
period. But Modernism is first and foremost a book of close
and acute readings of specific poems and novels - a book at
once richly textured and yet also enjoyable to read.'
Marjorie Perloff
David Ayers is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Modern Poetry at the University of Kent. He is the author of Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (1992) and English Literature of the 1920s (1999).
