Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment; and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.In this fully updated; expanded; and revised third edition; charting modernism in its global and local contexts; Peter Childs:details the origins of modernism and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin; Marx; Freud; Nietzsche; Saussure and Einstein explores the radical changes which occurred in the arts; literature; drama; and film of the period traces modernism at work in literature; especially in writings by a range of British; Irish; American and other Anglophone authors including James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett; Nella Larsen; Gertrude Stein; Katherine Mansfield; T. S. Eliot; and many others explains recent critical interest in the culture and worldwide impact of modernism reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism.At once accessible and critically informed; Modernism guides readers from first steps in the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural phenomena of the last centuries.
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