| Titre : | Modernism | | Titre original : | Keywords | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Melba Cuddy-Keane, Auteur ; Adam Hammond, Auteur ; Alaxandra Peat, Auteur | | Editeur : | USA : Wiley-Blackwell | | Année de publication : | 2014 | | Collection : | Keywords in Literature and Culture(KILC) | | Importance : | 266 p. | | Format : | 23.1 x 16.3 x 1.9 cm. | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-4051-8655-1 | | Langues : | Anglais | | Mots-clés : | Modernism Keywords | | Résumé : | Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in written modernism, tracking cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of change. * Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing cultural thought at the heart of modernism * Goes beyond constructions of plural modernisms to reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a simultaneous 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 its incipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath * Approaches English written modernism in its own terms, tempering explanations of modernism often derived from European poets and painters * Models research techniques based on digital databases and collaborative work in the humanities
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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 |
Modernism = Keywords [texte imprimé] / Melba Cuddy-Keane, Auteur ; Adam Hammond, Auteur ; Alaxandra Peat, Auteur . - USA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 . - 266 p. ; 23.1 x 16.3 x 1.9 cm.. - ( Keywords in Literature and Culture(KILC)) . ISBN : 978-1-4051-8655-1 Langues : Anglais | Mots-clés : | Modernism Keywords | | Résumé : | Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in written modernism, tracking cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of change. * Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing cultural thought at the heart of modernism * Goes beyond constructions of plural modernisms to reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a simultaneous 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 its incipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath * Approaches English written modernism in its own terms, tempering explanations of modernism often derived from European poets and painters * Models research techniques based on digital databases and collaborative work in the humanities
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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 |
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