T.S. Eliot
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and ... [... more]
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Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public ...
 how not to do things with words: Language, as Mr. Rainey so skillfully demonstrates, can be pummelled and pressed into a characterless mush, with all the texture and taste of a soggy, uncooked soup noodle. In that sense, "Institutions of Modernism: [... more]
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William Butler Yeats
Keith Alldritt, professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is the author of The Making of George Orwell, The Visual Imagination, D. H. Lawrence, Modernism in the Second World War, Churchill the Writer: His Life as a Man of ... [... more]
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Peter Smithson
Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the ... [... more]
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Jackie Wullschlager
Hardcover, 608 pages "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is." As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the [... more]
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The Waste Land and Other Writings
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and ... [... more]
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Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aime ...
Author: A. James Arnold Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9781583481332 ISBN: 1583481338 Number Of Pages: 335 Publication Date: 1998-12 [... more]
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21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics
Rare close readings: Perloff is one of the great boosters of the 'alternative modernists' -- the theme of this book -- and spends a good deal of time in the trenches, doing polemical readings of recent poets in the avant-garde. Lyn Heijnian versus, e.g., [... more]
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A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After
excellent introduction to modern poetry: David Perkins's "History of Modern Poetry" gives the reader the essentials of the modernist movement, from its beginnings as a reaction against the outworn Romantic era to the poetry of Ashbery, Ammons, [... more]
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Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, ...
tThis book should become a classic in its field.: Anais Nin lived a life of conflicting allegiances. She attempted to decide whether to be "a woman helping men" or "a creative artist competing with men." Torn between obligations and [... more]
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Modernism 1890 To 1939
An important Text for an important time: This collection of critical essays does much to clarify the readers understanding and enhance one's appreciation of the period that produced such great works as Ulysses and The Waste Land. By laying a ground work [... more]
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The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and ...
Modernist aesthetics studied: In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things [... more]
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