Peter Nicholls: Modernisms | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780230506763 | Modernisms | A Literary Guide | Peter Nicholls | Taschenbuch | 2009

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Beschreibung

Peter Nicholls provides original analytic accounts of the main Modernist movements. Close readings of key texts monitor the histories of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. This new edition includes discussion of the recent research trends, examination of developments in the US, and a new chapter on African-American Modernisms.

Über den Autor

PETER NICHOLLS is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of The Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

Zusammenfassung

An expanded new edition of an established text which provides original analyses of the main Modernist movements, including Futurism, Expressionism, Surrealism and now African American Modernism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Of a Certain Tone
Ironies of the Modern
Breaking the Rules: Symbolism in France
Decadence and the Art of Death
Paths to the Future
A Metaphysics of Modernity: Marinetti and Italian Futurism
Other Spaces: French Cubism and Russian Futurism
Cruel Structures: The Development of Expressionism
Modernity and the `Men of 1914'
At a Tangent: Other Modernisms
African American Modernism
From Fantasy to Structure: Dada and Neo-Classicism
Other Times: The Narratives of High Modernism
Death and Desire: The Surrealist Adventure
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780230506763
ISBN-10:	0230506763
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nicholls, Peter
Auflage:	2. Auflage
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Macmillan Education, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Nicholls
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.01.2009
Gewicht:	0,531 kg