Download e-book for kindle: Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions by Vicki Mahaffey

By Vicki Mahaffey

This inclusive consultant to Modernist literature considers the excessive Modernist writers reminiscent of Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats along girls writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance. demanding situations the concept Modernism used to be conservative and reactionary. Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and old crises and routine. Covers a variety of authors as much as the outbreak of global conflict II, between them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys. comprises assurance of girls writers and homosexual and lesbian writers.

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