Part One: Introduction Part Two: A Cultural Overview Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts * Modernist poetry -- French Origins, English Settings: Baudelaire, Mallarme and the Georgians o Extended commentary: Imagism * Modernist poetry -- America, Ireland and England: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Yeats and Eliot o Extended commentary: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) * The Modernist novel and tradition: Flaubert, Mann, Kafka and Joyce * Extended commentary: Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) * The Modernist novel II: Saki, Woolf and Lawrence * Extended commentary: Lawrence, Women in Love (1920) * The Modernist play I -- Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello and Beckett * Extended commentary: Beckett,Endgame (1957) * The Modernist play II -- Conrad, Brecht and Artaud o Extended commentary: Brecht, Baal (1923) Part Four: Critical theories and Debates Literature and War Modernist Print Culture Modernism, Music the Visual Arts Modernism and its Critics Part Five: Resources Timeline Further reading Index
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.
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.
- Part of the first literature study guides to cover key literary periods and texts and combine them with historical and cultural contexts
- Contains essential information on relevant literary criticism
- Gary Day is an experienced lecturer who has also written extensively in the field
- Contains various helpful features such as extented commentaries, additional notes, timelines and annotated further reading