Description
The enthusiasm for things postmodern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. In a lively and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Nicholas argues that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity.
Modernisms: A Literary Guide:
• introduces the reader to a wealth of literary experiment, beginning in the nineteenth-century world of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and moving forward to the recognizably modern one of the first avant-gardes
• provides close reading of key texts from, and original analyses of the main Modernist movements including Futurism, expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism
• now also features a new full-length chapter on African American Modernism and up-to-date Bibliography.
Authoritative and approachable, the second edition of this highly regarded work is essential reading for anyone with an interest in one of the most fascinating periods of literary and cultural history.
Modernisms: A Literary Guide:
• introduces the reader to a wealth of literary experiment, beginning in the nineteenth-century world of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and moving forward to the recognizably modern one of the first avant-gardes
• provides close reading of key texts from, and original analyses of the main Modernist movements including Futurism, expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism
• now also features a new full-length chapter on African American Modernism and up-to-date Bibliography.
Authoritative and approachable, the second edition of this highly regarded work is essential reading for anyone with an interest in one of the most fascinating periods of literary and cultural history.