Cambridge Companion to Modernism

Informationen zum Autor Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Virginia. Klappentext This Companion is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary appraisal of the modernist movement, with contributions from fourteen leading scholars. Zusammenfassung This Companion is a comprehensive interdisciplinary appraisal of the modernist movement! with contributions from fourteen leading scholars. Chapters address the major literary genres! the intellectual! religious and political contexts! and parallel developments in film! painting and music. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Michael (University of Virginia) Levenson, Michael H. Levenson, LEVENSON MICHAEL H
• Assisted by: Michael Levenson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107010635
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01063-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000