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The comparative perspective on angloamerican and european modernism shows how european movements have influenced the development of englishlanguage modernism. Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. Modern british poetry international online high school. This wideranging introduction takes readers through modernisms most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world.
The cambridge companion to modernist poetry edited by alex. Pericles lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in england, ireland and europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over the last generation, literary historians have challenged the postmodernist conception of modernism as the product of an arrogant elite. Jenkins the cambridge companion to modernist poetry isbn. Download the cambridge introduction to modernist poetry. The cambridge introduction to modernism cambridge introductions to literature. May 01, 2007 this introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Charles scribners sons for the quotations from poems by william ernest henley. Pericles lewis offers students a survey more than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Stokes company for the poem from ardours and endurances by robert nichols. Pdf the cambridge introduction to twentieth century american.
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