The Geometry of Modernism

Miranda B Hickman

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• Addressing both the literature and the visual arts of Anglo-American modernism, The Geometry of Modernism recovers a crucial development of modernism'... Lees meer

Edith Wharton's Inner Circle

Susan Goodman

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her "inner circle." This group included both well-known figur... Lees meer

Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity

Jonathan Goldman

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personali... Lees meer

Our Joyce

Joseph Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a fie... Lees meer

The Early Poetry of Robert Graves

Frank L Kersnowski

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in w... Lees meer

The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of hi... Lees meer

Joyce's Web

Margot Norris

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• James Joyce has long been viewed as a literary modernist who helped define and uphold modernism's fundamental concepts of the artist as martyr to bour... Lees meer

William Faulkner

James G Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and "performed" selves. Even in letters, he often played a part--gentleman dandy, soldi... Lees meer

Every Intellectual's Big Brother

John Rodden

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-Amer... Lees meer

The Unexamined Orwell

John Rodden

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics r... Lees meer

Joyce and the Two Irelands

Willard Potts

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism ... Lees meer

Stoppard's Theatre

John Fleming

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to... Lees meer

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars

Faye Hammill

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Modernism
• As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon--celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the st... Lees meer