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Modernist Literature: An Introduction

Book by Mary Ann Gillies, Aurelea Mahood; Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Subjects:

English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...critic and spokesman of modernist literature, which in turn helped...critical consolidation of modernist aes- thetics in British...these established modernists, the 1930s saw the...second-gen- eration modernists, and it is these...second-generation modernist, was asked to serve...
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Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature

Book by Gina M. Rossetti; University of Missouri Press, 2006

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American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Naturalism In Literature, Primitivism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...as twentieth-century, modernist American literature emerges, the primitive figure...theticizing the primitive, the modernist artist assumes this naive posture...As one continues to examine modernist literature, one notes that
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Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny

Book by David Ellison; Cambridge University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Aesthetics In Literature, Ethics In Literature, Literature, Modern--19th Century--History And Criticism, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Europe

Collections: Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN MODERNIST LITERATURE David Ellisons book...and imaginative literature on the other Baudelaire...and Comparative Literature and Chairman of...Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University...
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Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature

Book by Jessica R. Feldman; Cornell University Press, 1993

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Dandies In Literature, Literature, Modern--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature), Sex Differences (Psychology) In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

GENDER ON THE DIVIDE THE DANDY IN MODERNIST LITERATURE JESSICA R. FELDMAN CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON
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Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds

Book by David L. Pike; Cornell University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Civilization, Medieval, In Literature, Hell In Literature, Literature--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...inferos generally manifested in modernist literature. Neither Woolf nor Bennett was...continue to be evaluated as "modernist" remained in fact the Christian...it a model descent for high-modernist authority or an aimlessly Vergilian...

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Journal Articles on: modernist literature

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The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Journal article by Judie Newman; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and Twentieth-Century American Literature (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and Twentieth-Century American Literature. by Judie Newman The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance...departure is an attempt to see how Modernist movements in the United States...
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Mr. Charrington's Junk Shop: T.S. Eliot and Modernist Poetics in 'Nineteen Eighty-Four

Journal article by Patricia Rae; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 43, 1997

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1984 (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Eliot, T.S.--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Orwell, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and documentary literature, and metaphoric...symbolist, and modernist literature...Message." College Literature 11 (Winter 1984...Rethinking the Modernist Legacy in Nineteen...and essays on modernist literature in ELH, Comparative...
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Modernist Hauntology: James Joyce, Hester Dowden, and Shakespeare's Ghost

Journal article by Helen Sword; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 41, 1999

Subjects:

Literature--History And Criticism, Philology

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and theosophical elements of modernist literature are often unwilling to accord...own frequent figuration as a modernist ghost, in the realm of recent...Grady, in his 1991 book The Modernist Shakespeare , credits the Shakespeare...
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Frederick Wiseman's Modernist Vision: Central Park

Journal article by Richard A. Schwartz; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 23, 1995

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Documentary films, Motion pictures, Poetry, Russian literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...specific conclusions, but in modernist fashion he relies solely on...satisfies one central demand of modernist art and literature by superimposing coherence upon...He also conforms to the modernist view by demonstrating the paradoxical...
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John Dos Passos' Rosinante to the Road Again and the Modernist Expatriate Imagination

Journal article by Donald Pizer; Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 21, 1997

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Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Road Again and the Modernist Expatriate Imagination...the Road Again and the Modernist Expatriate Imagination". Journal of Modern Literature , XXI, 1 ( Fall 1997...Foundation for Modern Literature, 1997...

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Magazine Articles on: modernist literature

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Wry Modernist of Brazil's Past: Often Considered the Father of His Country's Literature, Machado De Assis Created Humorous and Dark Works of Implicit Social Criticism, Free of the Conventions of His Nineteenth-Century Rio

Magazine article by David A. Taylor; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, November 2002

Subjects:

Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de--Influence, Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de--Works, Authors, Brazilian--Influence, Authors, Brazilian--Works

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Wry modernist of Brazils past: often...father of his countrys literature, Machado de Assis created...as father of Brazilian literature. Rio de Janeiro would...the father of Brazilian literature. "I admit that when I...
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Moyshe-leyb Halpern: a Modernist Yiddish Poet in New York

Magazine article by Julian Levinson; Tikkun, Vol. 18, March 2003

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Halpern, Moyshe-Leyb, Jews, Literature, Personal profiles, Poetry

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Moyshe-leyb Halpern: a Modernist Yiddish Poet in New York by...Jewish studies and English literature at the University of Michigan...Judaism, lured by the call of literature rather than Torah. Yet they...in the history of Yiddish literature. There are several ways to...
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A French Modernist a la Chinoise

Magazine article; The Antioch Review, Vol. 66, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Steles (Poetry collection)--Book reviews

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A French Modernist a la Chinoise. modernist superstructure and Mallarm...rather rare case in French literature. quot;Doubles quot...of twentieth-century literature. As a modernist seeking...
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White Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege, & the Social Construction of Race: Moving from Modernist to Postmodernist Multiculturalism

Magazine article by Omowale Akintunde; Multicultural Education, Vol. 7, Winter 1999

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Construction of Race: Moving from Modernist to Postmodernist Multiculturalism...Race: Is it Real! The literature is replete with evidence that...of multicultural education literature builds on a false, humanly...contemporary multicultural literature regards "differences" as...
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American Modernists: Breaking the Mold

Magazine article by Susan Saccoccia; Humanities, Vol. 26, July 2005

Subjects:

American history, Art exhibits, Art history, Figge Art Museum-Davenport IA, Modernism, Painting

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to be a big subject for modernists on both sides of the Atlantic...simplicity that appealed to modernists. Known for creating icons...objects of daily life with a modernists eye for structure. Born...Stieglitz Seven, who shared a modernist strain of American transcendentalism...to other arts, including literature. The exhibition brings...

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Newspaper Articles on: modernist literature

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Modernist Masterpieces, Pirate Treasure and Cheeky Parisians; SEVEN DAYS; We Fill in Your Diary So You Don't Have To

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 20, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Modernist Masterpieces, Pirate Treasure and Cheeky...the work of one of the worlds finest Modernist architects up close at Chinmoku, an...Tadao Andos work (Himeji City Museum of Literature, left), including previously unseen...
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Designs for Living; the Modernist Icons Celebrated Next Month in a Blockbuster Exhibition at the V&A Are Just as Influential Now as the Day They Were Built

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 21, 2006

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Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...aesthetic purity that the early modernists hoped for. It is fitting...the City might not agree. Modernist architecture and design was...sharply at odds with art, literature, film, music and almost...caused so much destruction, modernists found it possible to call...buildings can only be called modernist, proves these declarations...
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Life's Vexing Question; Intellectual Detective Turns to Literature

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 17, 2007

Subjects:

Eagleton, Terry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Intellectual Detective Turns to Literature. Byline: Mark Grannis...eras. Similarly, post-modernist thinkers today believe the...life question in art and literature as a clue to the point at...panoramic tour of Western literature and philosophy in which he...
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Industry May Have Changed, but Power of the Literature Has Not; Tomorrow Merthyr Tydfil Will Celebrate Its Position as a Literary Powerhouse. Jackie Bow Reports

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 16, 2009

Subjects:

Jones, Glyn

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Changed, but Power of the Literature Has Not; Tomorrow Merthyr...Discussions, rthriving literature scene today. The Literary...Academi, the Welsh National Literature Development Agency and Society...him a little bit. Glyn is a modernist with a magic realistic approach...
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When Literature Tangles with Life

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, July 23, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

When literature tangles with life by Colin Walters Anyone who has ever...able to separate life in the flesh and in society from literature. Frances Wilson, who teaches literature at Reading University in England, is concerned with...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: modernist literature

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Chinese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

CHINESE LITERATURE the literature of ancient...Cultural Revolution the "literature of the wounded." Despite...and Wang Anyi. Reportage literature, a hybrid of journalism...developed a fusion of various modernist styles. Han Shaogong...
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Boye, Karin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...her last novel, is a fierce protest against totalitarianism. She was a central figure in the modernist movement in Scandinavian literature. Her main concerns included Christianity, socialism, lesbianism, and psychoanalysis. Boye died...
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Modernismo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...smo, movement in Spanish literature that had its beginning...Poe, and Walt Whitman. Modernist poetry often created an...contemporary movements in other literatures, a rejection of the materialist...de siecle verse in the modernist vein before modernismo...subtle word music. The modernists were supremely conscious...See G. M. Craig, The Modernist Trend in Spanish-American...
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Gao Xingjian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...resumed writing, but again fell afoul of the government for his modernist tendencies, rejection of socialist realism , and political...works in inkwash. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Sufism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...development of various aspects of Islamic civilization (e.g., literature and calligraphy), many conservative Muslims disagree with...centuries Sufism has been a target for Islamic reformist and modernist movements. See A. J. Arberry, Sufism (1970); L. Lewin...

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