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OverviewPeter Nicholls provides original analytic accounts of the main Modernist movements. Close readings of key texts monitor the histories of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. This new edition includes discussion of the recent research trends, examination of developments in the US, and a new chapter on African-American Modernisms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter NichollsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Red Globe Press Edition: 2nd ed. 2008 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.628kg ISBN: 9780230506763ISBN 10: 0230506763 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 18 November 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Of a Certain Tone Ironies of the Modern Breaking the Rules: Symbolism in France Decadence and the Art of Death Paths to the Future A Metaphysics of Modernity: Marinetti and Italian Futurism Other Spaces: French Cubism and Russian Futurism Cruel Structures: The Development of Expressionism Modernity and the `Men of 1914' At a Tangent: Other Modernisms African American Modernism From Fantasy to Structure: Dada and Neo-Classicism Other Times: The Narratives of High Modernism Death and Desire: The Surrealist Adventure Notes Bibliography Index.Reviews'With the precision of a global positioning system, Peter Nicholls scans the width and breadth of literary modernism. This new edition of his classic study provides a lucid and useful overview of the often antithetical tendencies that revolutionized the literature of Europe and America in the first decades of the twentieth century. New maps sweep clean: Modernisms sets the record-straight by looking aslant, restoring 'tangents' to the main stage of a play that continues to inform most of our present-day literary imaginings' - Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'When Modernisms appeared in 1995, I wrote that it was the very best single study of its subject currently available . For this new edition, Nicholls has added a dazzling, compact, remarkably comprehensive chapter on African American Modernism - a chapter that dovetails beautifully with this guide's larger narrative. Always authoritative and yet deeply personal in its emphases and tastes, Nicholls's remains the single best study of literary Modernism.' - Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernhyam Professor Emerita, Stanford University, USA. 'An impressive and valuable resource - the new edition retains a distinctive character and is further improved by the addition of the new chapter on the Harlem Renaissance' - Richard Brown, University of Leeds, UK 'With the precision of a global positioning system, Peter Nicholls scans the width and breadth of literary modernism. This new edition of his classic study provides a lucid and useful overview of the often antithetical tendencies that revolutionized the literature of Europe and America in the first decades of the twentieth century. New maps sweep clean: Modernisms sets the record-straight by looking aslant, restoring 'tangents' to the main stage of a play that continues to inform most of our present-day literary imaginings' - Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'When Modernisms appeared in 1995, I wrote that it was the very best single study of its subject currently available . For this new edition, Nicholls has added a dazzling, compact, remarkably comprehensive chapter on African American Modernism - a chapter that dovetails beautifully with this guide's larger narrative. Always authoritative and yet deeply personal in its emphases and tastes, Nicholls's remains the single best study of literary Modernism.' - Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernhyam Professor Emerita, Stanford University, USA. 'An impressive and valuable resource - the new edition retains a distinctive character and is further improved by the addition of the new chapter on the Harlem Renaissance' - Richard Brown, University of Leeds, UK Author InformationPETER NICHOLLS is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of The Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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