Modernism /
Childs, Peter, 1962-
Modernism / Peter Childs. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. - 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages). - The New critical idiom . - New critical idiom. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 INTERPRETING AND CHANGING -- chapter 2 GENRES, ART AND FILM -- chapter 3 TEXTS, CONTEXTS, INTERTEXTS.
Modernismis a succinct but authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. Peter Childs explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes that occurred in the novel, poetry and drama, as well as the many revolutions in art, film and aesthetic theory. This highly readable book explains the key terminology of the subject; orients the reader in terms of modernism's basic aspects; explores the literary shifts from realism to modernism to postmodernism; analyzes to modernist elements in the texts of writers such as Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Yeats, Ford, Eliot, Richardson, Conrad, Beckett; explains the impetus that Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein gave to experimental writers at the turn of the century.
English.
0203171047 9780203171042 9780203131169 0203131169 9780415196482 0415196485 9780415196475 0415196477
1800-1999
Modernism (Art)
Arts, Modern--19th century.
Arts, Modern--20th century.
ART--Reference.
ART--Performance.
Arts, Modern.
Modernism (Art)
Electronic books.
NX454.5.M63 / C48 2000eb
700/.4112
Modernism / Peter Childs. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. - 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages). - The New critical idiom . - New critical idiom. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 INTERPRETING AND CHANGING -- chapter 2 GENRES, ART AND FILM -- chapter 3 TEXTS, CONTEXTS, INTERTEXTS.
Modernismis a succinct but authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. Peter Childs explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes that occurred in the novel, poetry and drama, as well as the many revolutions in art, film and aesthetic theory. This highly readable book explains the key terminology of the subject; orients the reader in terms of modernism's basic aspects; explores the literary shifts from realism to modernism to postmodernism; analyzes to modernist elements in the texts of writers such as Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Yeats, Ford, Eliot, Richardson, Conrad, Beckett; explains the impetus that Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein gave to experimental writers at the turn of the century.
English.
0203171047 9780203171042 9780203131169 0203131169 9780415196482 0415196485 9780415196475 0415196477
1800-1999
Modernism (Art)
Arts, Modern--19th century.
Arts, Modern--20th century.
ART--Reference.
ART--Performance.
Arts, Modern.
Modernism (Art)
Electronic books.
NX454.5.M63 / C48 2000eb
700/.4112
