Vicki Mahaffey

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Modernist Literature (eBook, PDF)

Challenging Fictions?

Beschreibung

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.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.3MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470776865
• Artikelnr.: 38199928

Rezensionen

"Ambitiously diverse and unsettling, a book that respondsprovocatively to the challenges it poses."
--David Bradshaw, University of Oxford

"In this sharp, thoughtful and clearly-written book, modernismis not simply a descriptive category pigeon-holing a literaryperiod; it is made both more problematic (as when its ending islinked with the holocaust) and empowering. Boldly redefining thefield, Mahaffey throws a truly original light on the social,political and ethical relevance of main modernist 'chronicles ofdisorder,' showing convincingly how they challenge repressiveauthorities as well as the reader's ingrained passivity."
--Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

"This intelligent, strongly argued book reconceives the term'modernist' to mean modern literature that challenges the readerbecause of its originality, complexity, obscurity, or transgressivenature." (Choice)