From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest linking contemporary poets with their modernist forebears, including Stein, Williams and Pound. She develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences.
Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930
Anglo-American modernist writing and modern mass democratic states emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Yet writers such as T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Ford Madox Ford were notoriously hostile to modern democracies. They often defended, anti-democratic forms of cultural authority. Since the late 1970s, however, our understanding of modernist culture has altered as previously marginalized writers, in particular women such as Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, H. D. and Mina Loy have been reassessed.
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences.
Theoretical Criminology : From Modernity to Post-Modernism
This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. It sets out a new project for criminology, a criminology of modernity, and offers a sustained critique of theorising without a concern for social totalities.
Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War
This book is about Ford and his place in modernism. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters develop this debate in relation to the personal narrative and war writing. Ford's literary technique is analysed comparatively, and this text will be useful for anyone studying the literature of the early twentieth century, war writing, impressionism, or modernism in general terms.
