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Modernist Literature Vicki Mahaffey

Modernist Literature par Vicki Mahaffey

Modernist Literature Vicki Mahaffey

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Résumé

* Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers.

Modernist Literature Résumé

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? Vicki Mahaffey

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.

Modernist Literature Avis

Ambitiously diverse and unsettling, a book that responds provocatively to the challenges it poses. --David Bradshaw, University of Oxford In this sharp, thoughtful and clearly-written book, modernism is not simply a descriptive category pigeon-holing a literary period; it is made both more problematic (as when its ending is linked with the holocaust) and empowering. Boldly redefining the field, Mahaffey throws a truly original light on the social, political and ethical relevance of main modernist 'chronicles of disorder,' showing convincingly how they challenge repressive authorities as well as the reader's ingrained passivity. --Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania This intelligent, strongly argued book reconceives the term 'modernist' to mean modern literature that challenges the reader because of its originality, complexity, obscurity, or transgressive nature. (Choice)

À propos de Vicki Mahaffey

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).

Sommaire

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.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR007007126
9780631213079
0631213074
Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? Vicki Mahaffey
Vicki Mahaffey
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2006-12-14
264
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