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  • The Great War and the Language of Modernism

    With the expressions "Lost Generation" and "The Men of 1914," the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge History of Modernism

    Edición de Vincent Sherry ...
    This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern ... Leer más

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  • Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence

    In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War

    Edición de Vincent Sherry ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national ... Leer más

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  • Rites of Spring

    The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

    This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity.This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to ... Leer más

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  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Leer más

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  • Testimony from the Nazi Camps

    French Women's Voices

    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French ... Leer más

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    de Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Leer más

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    de Andrew Leak ...
    Series Libro 9 - Critical Lives
    Jean-Paul Sartre was arguably the most celebrated and written-about intellectual of the twentieth century. He was also one of the most divisive: twenty-five years after his death, his name still provokes revulsion and admiration in equal measure. But who really knew him? From early on, Sartre cultivated publicity and transparency as paradoxical shields of his privacy. Through an impressive range ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

    Edición de Michael Levenson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, ... Leer más

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  • Samuel Beckett

    de Andrew Gibson ...
    Series Libro 25 - Critical Lives
    The life of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) has been the subject of exhaustive scholarship, yet by contrast Beckett himself was a spare, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted the techniques of biography. In this new, concise, critical account of Beckett’s life and work, Andrew Gibson seeks to remain faithful to the writer’s artistic aims, staying close to Beckett’s style of thought and work in his ... Leer más

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  • European Identity in Cinema

    Edición de Wendy Everett ...
    The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution and exhibition and detailed critical analysis of specific films, directors, and national cinemas, this volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to current film debate.While the book ... Leer más

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