Cuddy-Keane / Hammond / Peat Modernism

Keywords
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-32596-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC)

Guided by the historical semantics developed in RaymondWilliams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism:Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used withfrequency and urgency in "written modernism," trackingcultural and literary debates and transformative moments ofchange.
* Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changingcultural thought at the heart of modernism
* Goes beyond constructions of "plural modernisms" toreveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in asimultaneous and interlocking mix
* Draws from a vast compilation of more than a thousand sources,ranging from vernacular prose to experimental literary forms
* Spans the "long" modernist period, from itsincipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath
* Approaches English written modernism in its own terms,tempering explanations of modernism often derived from Europeanpoets and painters
* Models research techniques based on digital databases andcollaborative work in the humanities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cuddy-Keane, Melba

Hammond, Adam

Peat, Alexandra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Credits and Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: Unsettling Modernism x
Note on References xviii
A
Advertising 1
Atom, Atomic 6
Avant-Garde 11
B
Best Seller 15
Bigness, Smallness 20
Biography, New Biography 26
C
Common Man 34
Common Mind, Group Thinking 40
Conventional, Conventionality 45
Coterie, Bloomsbury 49
D
Democracy 56
Difficulty, Obscurity 63
E
Einstein 70
Empire, Imperialism 77
F
Fascism 85
Form, Formalism 91
G
God, Gods 99
H
Hamlet 107
Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow 111
Hygiene 119
I
Impression, Impressionism 125
International, Internationalism 129
M
Manifesto 136
Modern, Modernism 139
N
Negro, New Negro 147
P
Personality, Impersonality 155
Primitive 162
Propaganda 170
Q
Queer, Gay 177
R
Race 184
Readers, Reading 191
Reality, Realism 196
Rhythm 203
S
Sentimental, Sentimentality 210
Shock, Shell Shock 214
U
Unconscious 223
Universal 231
W
Woman, New Woman 238
Words, Language 246
Index of Modernist Authors 254
Index of Modernist Keywords 263

Über Autor(innen)

Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor, University ofToronto-Scarborough and Emerita Member of the Graduate Departmentof English, University of Toronto. Her publications includeVirginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere(2003), the Harcourt annotated edition of Virginia Woolf'sBetween the Acts (2008) and contributions to ACompanion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006)and A Companion to Narrative Theory (2005).
Adam Hammond recently completed an SSHRC postdoctoralfellowship at the University of Victoria and is currently theMichael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at theUniversity of Guelph. He is the author of Literature in theDigital Age: A Critical Introduction (forthcoming 2015).
Alexandra Peat is an Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Literature and Culture, Franklin University Switzerland. She isthe author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred andEthical Journeys (2010).