Modernism Revisited

Texts and Contexts

Amitayu Chakraborty

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216267478
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts offers a profound exploration of modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical, and cultural upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

By revisiting key texts, this book provides fresh perspectives on the movement's formal innovations and ideological contradictions. It delves into themes such as fragmented identities, evolving perceptions of time, and challenges to traditional norms in an era marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. Each chapter situates seminal works, including those of T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, within their historical contexts while also showcasing underrepresented voices and transnational contributions. The book critically examines subjects such as gendered narratives, mythological influences, linguistic experimentation, and the interplay between modernism and the cityscape. Featuring insights from international scholars, this work integrates textual analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, encompassing literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. By revisiting modernism's complexities and contradictions, this collection underscores its enduring relevance in contemporary debates on identity, creativity, and cultural change. Perfect for both scholars and students, Modernism Revisited invites readers to reconsider the movement's lasting legacy and its implications for today's intellectual and artistic discourses.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Content
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Realism versus Modernism
• Chapter 2: “The Unseen Parts that Spread Wide” : Mrs. Dalloway and the Schizo-Rhizome
• Chapter 3: Uncanny Embodiment and History on the Late Modernist Stage
• Chapter 4: The Unfinished Resistance of Moving Texts: Resonance and Witness in the Works of Martha Graham and Muriel Rukeyser
• Chapter 5: Myth in Modernism: Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, and Pound
• Chapter 6: Occult Modernism: Aesthetic of the Esoteric
• Chapter 7: Silence and Empowering: The Gendered Narrative of Modernism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
• Chapter 8: Women, War, and the Poetics of Grief
• Chapter 9: “How Will You Furnish It?”: Domestic Labor and Modernist Women’s Writing in Interwar Britain
• Chapter 10: Time and “Music” in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and The Four Quartets
• Chapter 11: “Now Is the Moment”: Writing To Be in The Waves
• Chapter 12: “This impersonal thing, which I’m dared to do by my friends, the flight of time”: The Temporal Aesthetics of Virgi ia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
• Chapter 13: Letters from Loiterers: Modernism and the City
• Chapter 14: The Multilingual Waste Land
• Chapter 15: Modernism and the Crisis of Language: An Introduction through Later Joyce
• Chapter 16: Where and for Whom is “Europe” in the Context of Transnational Modernist Studies?: A Glance at Estonian Writer Leida Kibuvits
• Chapter 17: Interrogating Modernity and Modernism through Tagore’s Poetics
• Chapter 18: The Drifters: The Emergence of the “Modern” Characters in Bengal
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors