The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

In this Companion, eminent British and American scholars offer a guide to the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, on intellectual, political and institutional contexts, and on film and the visual arts, provide close analyses and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A Chronology and Guide to Further Reading supply valuable orientation within the field. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating reevaluation. Annotation In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H.D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation Includes Chapters On The Major Literary Genres, Intellectual, Political And Institutional Contexts, Film And The Visual Arts, This Text Provides Both Close Analyses Of Individual Works Of Modernism And A Broader Set Of Interpretive Narratives. Introduction / Michael Levenson -- The Metaphysics Of Modernism / Michael Bell -- The Cultural Economy Of Modernism / Lawrence Rainey -- The Modernist Novel / David Trotter -- Modern Poetry / James Longenbach -- Modernism In Drama / Christopher Innes -- Modernism And The Politics Of Culture / Sara Blair -- Modernism And Gender / Marianne Dekoven -- The Visual Arts / Glen Macleod -- Modernism And Film / Michael Wood. Edited By Michael Levenson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 233-240) And Index. Cover......Page 1 The Cambridge Companion to Modernism......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 List of illustrations......Page 9 List of contributors......Page 10 Chronology......Page 12 Introduction......Page 19 1 The metaphysics of Modernism......Page 27 2 The cultural economy of Modernism......Page 51 3 The modernist novel......Page 88 4 Modern poetry......Page 118 5 Modernism in drama......Page 148 6 Modernism and the politics of culture......Page 175 7 Modernism and gender......Page 192 8 The visual arts......Page 212 9 Modernism and film......Page 235 Further reading......Page 251