Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects
are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what
amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.
In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition,
charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:
details the origins of modernism and the influence of thinkers such
as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein explores
the radical changes which occurred in the arts, literature, drama,
and film of the period traces 'modernism at work' in literature,
especially in writings by a range of British, Irish, American and
other Anglophone authors including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf,
Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield,
T. S. Eliot, and many others explains recent critical interest in
the culture and worldwide impact of modernism reflects upon the
shift from modernism to postmodernism. At once accessible and
critically informed, Modernism guides readers from first steps in
the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important
cultural phenomena of the last centuries.
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