Modernism A Guide To European Literature 1890-1930

Modernism A Guide To European Literature 1890-1930 Edited by Malcom Bradbury and James McFarlane isbn: 0140138323 Penguin books 1991 paperback book 688 pages good used condition one crumpled page yellowing of page margins; tanning see photos The period 1890-1930 produced literature that still feels contemporary and few movements can boast such an international wealth of innovative writers - Apollinaire, Brecht, Joyce, Kafka, Strindberg, Woolf and Yeats among many others. This now classic survey explores the ideas, the groupings and the social tensions that shaped this transformation, as well as the literature itself, and identifies the elements of shock and crisis central to Modernist style. Appropriately, the contributors display a stimulating variety of critical approaches and methods resulting in some of the most exciting and scholarly criticism yet written on Modernism. literary criticism history student reference college school writing