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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, Blackwell Publishing, coll. "Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture", oct 2008, 616 pages.


Sous le direction de David Bradshaw (Worcester College, Oxford) et Kevin Dettmar (Pomona College)



Paperback (2008), ISBN: 9781405188227

Hardback (2006), ISBN: 9780631204350




Présentation de l'éditeur:


The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.


  • An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture
  • Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage
  • Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic
  • Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art
  • Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Pays close attention to both British and American modernism

David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at Oxford University andHawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at WorcesterCollege, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernist literature,including the Oxford World's Classics editions of Lawrence's Women inLove (1998), Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006),and the Penguin Classics editions of Waugh's Decline and Fall (2001)and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor of A ConciseCompanion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and is Victorian and ModernLiterature Editor of the Review of English Studies.

Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor andChair of English at Pomona College, California. He has written andedited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernist literature andculture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes & Noble Classicsedition of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners,and has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association. He isseries editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature &Culture series published by Oxford University Press.


Sommaire:


Part I: ORIGINS, BEGINNINGS, AND THE NEW
Part II: MOVEMENTS
Part III: MODERNIST GENRES AND MODERN MEDIA
Part IV: READINGS
Part V: OTHER MODERNISMS
Index