The modern movement, 1910-1940 /

This is the fifth volume to be published in the the Oxford English Literary History series. This series of groundbreaking volumes offers leading scholars' considered assessments of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. A major n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baldick, Chris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Colección:Oxford English literary history ; v. 10.
Temas:
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Modern beginnings.
  • The modern literary market.
  • Modern authorship.
  • Modern English usage.
  • Modern poetry. Verse technique ; Hardy and Yeats ; Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and 'Georgian' poetry ; Imagism and after: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence ; W.H. Auden and the poetry of the thirties ; Trends, anthologies, and reputations.
  • Modern drama. From problem play to discussion play ; Comedy of manners: Maugham and Coward ; Historical and verse drama.
  • Modern short stories.
  • The modern novel: principles and methods.
  • The modern novel as social chronicle. Provincial chronicles and sagas ; Condition of England, industrial, and civic novels.
  • The modern psychological novel. Realism and the education novel ; High modernism, memory, and consciousness.
  • Modern romance, fable, and historical fiction. Romances of truancy ; Historical novels ; Fabulous romances ; Visionary romances.
  • Modern satire. Verse satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon ; Prose satire: Huxley, Waugh, and others.
  • Modern essays, biographies, memoirs, and travel books.
  • Modern entertainment: forms of light reading. Detective fiction ; The thriller ; Romantic love stories ; Comical prose fiction.
  • England and the English. Names for England ; England epitomized ; England explored ; The English character ; The English abroad.
  • The Great War. Survivals of heroic literature ; Four phases of war-writing ; Passivity, martyrology, and war myths.
  • Childhood and youth.
  • Sex and sexualities. Sex-talk in the Freudian age ; Realism, deviance, and censorship ; Erotic writing.
  • Retrospect: Three decades of modern realism.

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