Modernist Literature Challenging Fictions 1st Edition by Vicki Mahaffey ISBN 1405172819 9781405172813

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ISBN 10: 1405172819

ISBN 13: 9781405172813 

Author: Vicki Mahaffey

This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

• Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
• Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
• Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys.
• Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.

Table of contents:

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Introduction.

1. Why Read Challenging Literature?.

Part II: Readings.

2. Partnering: Holmes and Watson, Author and Reader, Lover and Loved, Man and Wife.

3. Window Painting: The Art of Blocking Understanding.

4. Watchman, What of the Night?.

Conclusion.

Notes.

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