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Modernism, 1910-1945

Image to Apocalypse

  • Textbook
  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Jane Goldman
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  • Adopts a new approach to the period and provides revisionary exploration of theories of modernism and the avantgarde
    Examines the work of both canonical modernist writers, such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Wolf, and Ezra Pound, and less traditional figures of the period, including Nathanael West, Kurt Schwitters and Aldous Huxley

Part of the book series: Transitions (TRANSs)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction: “Make It New”

    1. Introduction: “Make It New”

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 1-30

  3. 1910: Image, Order, War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Literature after 1910

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 33-76

    3. Tradition, Order, War and the Dead

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 77-103

    4. The Egoist, War, Hell and Image

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 104-142

    5. “Tradition” and “Mrs Brown”

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 143-160

  4. Image, Gender, Apocalypse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Rude Mouths

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 163-198

    3. Gender Wars in Hell

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 199-208

  5. Apocalypse 1945

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Order, Night, Rage

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 211-236

    3. Apocalypse, Auschwitz, the Bomb and After

      • Jane Goldman
      Pages 237-255

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 256-312
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About this book

This essential guide explores and celebrates the rise and development of modernist and avant-garde literatures and theories in the period 1910-1945, from Imagism to the Apocalypse movement. Jane Goldman charts transitions in writing, reading, performing and publishing practices, and in international groupings and regroupings of writers and artists, and interrogates the term 'Modernism' which labels the era. Goldman introduces students to the work of many canonical high modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and samples the work of other important modernist figures, including Nathanael West, John Rodker, Aldous Huxley and the Harlem Renaissance poets.

About the author

JANE GOLDMAN is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Dundee. She is the author of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual (1998) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998).

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