This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the
‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound
and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem
Renaissance.
* * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and
reactionary.
* Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and
historical crises and movements.
* Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War
II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston
Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean
Rhys.
* Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian
writers.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Introduction.
1. Why Read Challenging Literature?.
Part II: Readings.
2. Partnering: Holmes and Watson, Author and Reader, Lover and
Loved, Man and Wife.
3. Window Painting: The Art of Blocking Understanding.
4. Watchman, What of the Night?.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Vicki Mahaffey is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Award for teaching. Her previous publications include Reauthorizing Joyce (1988) and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experience (1998).
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