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Literary research and British modernism Literary research and British modernism Alison M. Lewis Focusing on work produced between 1880 and 1945, Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources provides scholars with the necessary methods and tools for studying the literature of … OL13826529W
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, & the Public Sphere Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, & the Public Sphere Melba Cuddy-Keane Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere relates Woolf's literary reviews and essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of 'highbrow' culture, the methods of instructio… OL15181298W
The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry Howarth, Peter "Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poe… OL16134650W
Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity, 1750-1800 Literature, commerce, and the spectacle of modernity, 1750-1800 Paul Keen "Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the … OL16239909W
The poor bugger's tool The poor bugger's tool Patrick R. Mullen viii, 213 p. : 25 cm OL16283155W
Modernism and style Modernism and style Ben Hutchinson "Tracing the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s, this bo… OL16318020W
The Cambridge companion to European modernism The Cambridge companion to European modernism Pericles Lewis "Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the n… OL16360793W
Modernism and Japanese culture Modernism and Japanese culture Roy Starrs "Offering an in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism, in this book Roy Starrs considers the concept of modernism as encompassing not just the aesthetic avant-g… OL16471152W
Virginia Woolf, modernity and history Virginia Woolf, modernity and history Angeliki Spiropoulou "This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographica… OL16984013W
Cinema and modernism Cinema and modernism David Trotter xii, 205 p. : 23 cm OL18796208W
Modernism's print cultures Modernism's print cultures Faye Hammill The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. "Modernism's Print Cultures" surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field… OL20037722W
Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period Anthony Domestico 1 online resource OL20214917W
Mary Barnard, American Imagist Mary Barnard, American Imagist Sarah Barnsley "Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry"--Provided by publisher. OL22643828W
The American Lawrence The American Lawrence Lee M. Jenkins Although contemporary scholarship views D. H. Lawrence as a distinctly English author, Lee M. Jenkins argues for a reassessment of his relationship to American modernism and his American literary con… OL23205877W
Haiku and modernist poetics Haiku and modernist poetics Yoshinobu Hakutani "Hakutani's study is of interest to those concerned about haiku poetics or writing original haiku as it traces haiku from Basho to its reception in the English-speaking West (Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, K… OL3253984W
Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction Edward Engelberg "In this study of solitude in modernist fiction, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, and how solitude as a condition has co… OL4637329W
Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 Jane Dowson "This book primarily maps the poetry scene in Britain but identifies the significance of the network of writers between London, New York and Paris. It assesses women's participation in the diversity … OL5732986W
Flint on a bright stone Flint on a bright stone Kirsten Blythe Painter Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of “Tempered Modernism,” which blossomed in the first two decades of the twentieth cen… OL5836842W
Lean down your ear upon the earth, and listen Lean down your ear upon the earth, and listen Robert Taylor Ensign "In this ecocritical study of Thomas Wolfe's body of fiction, Robert Taylor Ensign explores how the celebrated writer's storytelling is founded on his dramatization - and apprehension - of the natura… OL5954503W
Thomas Hardy's poetry Thomas Hardy's poetry Byunghwa Joh "Thomas Hardy's psyche can be explained effectively by the relationship of the child with its mother, suggesting that he was dominated throughout his life by the mother archetype. His pessimistic vis… OL7798385W
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