Modernist Literature: 1890-1950 (York Notes Companions)

Modernist Literature: 1890-1950 (York Notes Companions)

by Dr Gary Day (Author)

Synopsis

The period 1890 to 1950 is remarkable for radical innovation and literary development. This volume looks back to the origins of Modernism and the traditions that shaped it, examining texts from France, America, England and Ireland to provide a stimulating and original take on this unique movement in literary history. Combining textual analysis with key critical approaches, the book considers central texts such as Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist and Lawrence's Women in Love alongside wider debates on Literature and War , Modernism, Music and the Visual Arts and Modernism and its Critics .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
Publisher: Longman
Published: 15 Jun 2010

ISBN 10: 1408204762
ISBN 13: 9781408204764
Book Overview:

This volume in the York Notes Companions series looks back to the origins of Modernism and the traditions that shaped it, examining texts from France, America, England and Ireland to provide a stimulating and original take on this unique movement in literary history.


Media Reviews

Via a combination of critical approaches and textual analysis, Day explores a fertile period for literary development.

- Reviewed in Times Higher Education

Author Bio

Dr Gary Day is Principal Lecturer and English Course leader for the MA in Independent Study at the University of De Montfort. He has a wide range of literary interests, including modern literature and drama, and the history of criticism. He is also widely published, with his most recent work, Literary Criticism: A New History (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), described as 'exuberantly readable a book that will appeal to students and scholars alike'. He is also the author of Class (Routledge 2001) described by Terry Eagleton as 'a signal achievement'. In addition to being the author of several other books and of many chapters, essays and articles he has also edited Palgrave's New Casebook on The Rainbow and Women in Love (Macmillan, 2004), British Poetry 1990 1950 (Macmillan, 1995), and Literature and Culture in Modern Britain Volumes 2 and 3 (Longman, 1997, 1999). He is a reviewer for, amongst others, THES, the Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies and the TLS. Gary Day is joint editor with Jack Lynch of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Eighteenth Century Literature.