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In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable show more orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation. show lessTags
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This should, perhaps, be more aptly titled "The Cambridge Companion to Apologizing for Modernism," since nearly all of the essays disparage modernism either in comparison with the artistic movements of romanticism and victorianism that preceded it or with postmodernism, which succeeded it. Oddly, the only contributors who unreservedly celebrate the modernist period are Michael Wood and Christopher Innes writing, respectively, about film and the drama, two genres that are not always associated with the label "modernism." But I guess nobody gets published today by expressing opinions that people held yesterday. That's what makes us modern.
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Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Modernism
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
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- 700.4112 — Arts & recreation Arts Arts & Recreation Special topics in the arts Arts displaying specific qualities of style, mood, viewpoint Nontraditional viewpoints Modernism
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- PN56 .M54 .C36 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Theory. Philosophy. Esthetics
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