Modernisms
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Modernisms

A Literary Guide, Second Edition

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modernisms

A Literary Guide, Second Edition

About this book

Peter Nicholls provides original analytic accounts of the main Modernist movements. Close readings of key texts monitor the histories of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. This new edition includes discussion of the recent research trends, examination of developments in the US, and a new chapter on African-American Modernisms.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780230506763
eBook ISBN
9781137114921

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Of a Certain Tone
  10. 1 Ironies of the Modern
  11. 2 Breaking the Rules: Symbolism in France
  12. 3 Decadence and the Art of Death
  13. 4 Paths to the Future
  14. 5 A Metaphysics of Modernity: Marinetti and Italian Futurism
  15. 6 Other Spaces: French Cubism and Russian Futurism
  16. 7 Cruel Structures: The Development of Expressionism
  17. 8 Modernity and the ‘Men of 1914’
  18. 9 At a Tangent: Other Modernisms
  19. 10 African American Modernism
  20. 11 From Fantasy to Structure: Dada and Neo-Classicism
  21. 12 Other Times: The Narratives of High Modernism
  22. 13 Death and Desire: The Surrealist Adventure
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index