Modernism: The Basics The Basics The Basics Series
Auteur : Winkiel Laura
Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as:
- What is modernism?
- How did modernism begin?
- Has modernism developed differently in different media?
- How is it related to postmodernism and postcolonialism?
- How have politics, urbanization and new technologies affected modernism?
With engaging examples from art, literature and historical documents, each chapter provides suggestions for further reading, histories of relevant movements and clear definitions of key terminology, making this an essential guide for anyone approaching the study of modernism for the first time.
Chapter 1. What is Modernism? Chapter 2. Concepts Chapter 3. Histories Chapter 4. Forms Afterword
Laura Winkiel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, United States.
Date de parution : 03-2017
12.9x19.8 cm
Date de parution : 03-2017
12.9x19.8 cm
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Prix indicatif 117,69 €
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Mots-clés :
Young Man; aesthetics; Modernism; visual arts; Dos Passos; introduction to modernism; Great Divide; literature; African Masks; postmodernism; Picasso’s Les Demoiselles; European modernism; Jug Jug; World picture of modernism; Harlem Renaissance; Imperialism and colonialism; La Jungla; Modernism and modernity; Modernist Poetic Form; poststructuralists; Futabatei Shimei; feminists; Modern-ist Poetry; new historicists; Great Famine; Crisis of representation; Common Language; Hermeneutics of suspicion; Close Reading Techniques; History of modernist criticism; White America; Evolution of modernism; PWA; Material modernisms; Free Indirect Discourse; Global modernisms; Harlem Renaissance Art; Vernacular modernism; Dead Men; Primitivist modernism; Reluctant Fundamentalist; Ismat Chughtai; Cold War Modernisms; John Dos Passos; Négritude; Modernist Melancholia; Afrocentrism; Mythical Method; Picasso Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon; Joyce Ulysses; Salih A Season of Migration to the North; Fritz Lang Metropolis; Peter Abraham Mine Boy; William Plomer Turbott Wolfe; Elizabeth Bowen The Last September; Oswald de Andrade Manifesto Antropófago; Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart; Aimé Césaire Un Cahier d’un retour au pays natal; Virginia Woolf Mrs; Dalloway; Bertolt Brecht A Threepenny Opera; Realism; impressionism; avant‐garde; cubism; surrealism; expressionism; aestheticism
