Modernism: 1890-1930/A Guide to European Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0140138323
- ISBN-13
- 9780140138320
- Series
- Modernism
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 688
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Malcolm Bradbury
Description
The period 1890-1930 produced literature that still feels contemporary and few movements can boast such an international wealth of innovative writers - Apollinaire, Brecht, Joyce, Kafka, Strindberg, Woolf and Yeats among many others. This now classic survey explores the ideas, the groupings and the social tensions that shaped this transformation, as well as the literature itself, and identifies the elements of shock and crisis central to Modernist style. Appropriately, the contributors display a stimulating variety of critical approaches and methods resulting in some of the most exciting and scholarly criticism yet written on Modernism.
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