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Product Identifiers

PublisherBenjamins Publishing Company, John

ISBN-10902723454X

ISBN-139789027234544

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038662092

Product Key Features

Number of Pages1052 Pages

Publication NameModernism

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

SubjectAesthetics, Semiotics & Theory, History / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art, Philosophy

AuthorVivian Liska

SeriesComparative History of Literatures in European Languages Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight90.8 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-003851

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume NumberXXI

Number of Volumes2 vols.

Dewey Decimal670.42

SynopsisThe two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity., The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, -all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.

LC Classification NumberPN56.M54M597 2007