David Ayers

Modernism (eBook, PDF)

A Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777107
• Artikelnr.: 38214394

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'David Ayers provides the reader with a series of interlacingreadings - all of them original and provocative - ofsome major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers's centraltheme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all itscomplex "modernist" manifestations. The theories ofBenjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an importantbase for understanding the great poetries and fictions of theperiod. But Modernism is first and foremost a book of closeand acute readings of specific poems and novels - a book atonce richly textured and yet also enjoyable to read.'

Marjorie Perloff