Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

by PeterChilds (Author)

Synopsis

A succinct but authoritative analysis of one of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. This guide explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the novel, poetry and drama.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 18 May 2000

ISBN 10: 0415196485
ISBN 13: 9780415196482

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In attempting to answer the question what is modernism? Childs moves gracefully from considerations of Adorno, to Barthes, to Habermas, to Showalter, to Wittgenstein.
-Victorian Poetry
Author Bio

Peter Childs is Professor in Modern English at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of many books on literature post-1900, including The Twentieth Century in Poetry (1998).