Bradshaw / Dettmar A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5467-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essentialtexts and contexts of the modernist movement with the uniqueinsights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the studyof modernism.

* An essential resource for students and teachers of modernistliterature and culture

* Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage

* Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the mostdistinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic

* Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture,contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all thegenres of modernist writing and art

* Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature,from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora NealHurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

* Pays close attention to both British and Americanmodernism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradshaw, David

Dettmar, Kevin J. H.

Über Autor(innen)

David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at OxfordUniversity and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literatureat Worcester College, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernistliterature, including the Oxford World's Classics editions ofLawrence's Women in Love (1998), Woolf's MrsDalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006), and thePenguin Classics editions of Waugh's Decline and Fall(2001) and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor ofA Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and isVictorian and Modern Literature Editor of the Review of EnglishStudies.
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished ServiceProfessor and Chair of English at Pomona College, California. Hehas written and edited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernistliterature and culture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes& Noble Classics edition of Joyce's Portrait of theArtist as a Young Man and Dubliners, and has served asPresident of the Modernist Studies Association. He is serieseditor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature &Culture series published by Oxford University Press.