This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the
field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it
addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in
modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its
success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of
modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the
intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel
developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the
First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire,
the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and
circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing
so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in
language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical
conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture.
目錄:
Introduction Michael Levenson
1. The metaphysics of modernism Michael Bell
2. The cultural economy of modernism Lawrence Rainey
3. The modernist novel David Trotter
4. Modern poetry James Longenbach
5. Modernism in drama Christopher Innes
6. The politics of culture Sara Blair
7. Modernism and religion Pericles Lewis
8. Mass culture Allison Pease
9. Modernism and gender Marianne DeKoven
10. Musical motives Daniel Albright
11. The visual arts Glen MacLeod
12. Film Michael Wood
13. Colonial modernism Elleke Boehmer and Steven Matthews
Further reading
Index.