What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical issues and develop their moral ideas? Lee Oser argues that thinking about human nature restores a perspective on modernist literature that has been lost. He offers detailed discussions of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics to illuminate close readings of major modernist texts. For Oser, the reception of Aristotle is crucial to the modernist moral project, which he defines as the effort to transform human nature through the use of art.
Included are chapters on: Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"; E.M. Forster's "Howards End"; James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love"; T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Wasteland"; and, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". Each chapter provides biographical information; a plot summary; an analysis of themes, style, symbols, and characters; and a discussion of the work's historical and cultural contexts.
Historical Dictionary of the American Theater: Modernism by Felicia Hardison LondrZ and James Fisher covers the theatrical practice and practitioners as well as the dramatic literature of the United States of America from 1880 to 1929.
At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory the contributors to this volume provide a much needed corrective to the misleading images of modernism which have dominated recent debate. Richard Sheppard's account of European modernism focuses on the profound ideological crisis which beset Western culture between 1890 and 1930 and examines the ways in which artists and intellectuals responded to it; Bernard McGuirk analyses the ambivalent reactions of Apollinaire and Alberti to the machine age; David Wragg investigates the aesthetic and epistemological underpinnings of verbal and visual Vorticism in the work of Wyndham Lewis and Mike Johnson considers the potential for a (post)modernist political aesthetic in the Merz texts of Kurt Schwitters.
The Modernist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries constituted a literary and cultural revolution.Modernism's importance is undeniable,from its break with realism to its influence on postmodernism. Modernism combines a comprehensive introduction to the movement with original analyses of key Modernist texts.As the writer traces the Modernist movement from its roots and through its various branches,he tackles such issues as gender,class,race and sexuality,offering an account which is critically informed and engaging throughout. This essential guide takes the reader from the who's who and what's what of Modernism to an advanced understanding of this crucial cultural movement.
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