Wallace, Jeff
Beginning Modernism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780719067891
- author:
- Wallace, Jeff
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 13 x 2.8 cm
- Genre:
- Cultural studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Beginning Modernism offers a clear and reader-friendly introduction to this complex subject. By focusing on close readings of modernist artefacts from various fields, the book aims to demystify the notorious difficulties of 'high' modernism.
The book highlights the emergence of a new modernist studies, emphasizing the eclectic, the popular, and the global or transnational. This approach encourages readers to situate their reading of modernist literature within a wider set of cultural contexts, including visual art, ideas of time and space, sculpture, photography, film, politics, technology, sexuality, primitivism, architecture, dance, drama, and music.
Suitable for both the general reader and students in literary studies, art history, and cultural studies, Beginning Modernism provides a valuable resource for understanding this pivotal moment in modern intellectual history.
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