An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy
Author(s): Bradbury, Malcolm; McFarlane, James Walter (Eds.)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1991 [1976]
Language: English
Pages: 689
City: London
Tags: modernism, theory
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Part One......Page 17
1. the Name and Nature of Modernism (malcolm Bradbury and James Mcfarlane......Page 19
2. the Cultural and Intellectual Climate of Modernism......Page 57
The Double Image (alan Bullock......Page 58
The Mind of Modernism (james Mcfarlane......Page 71
3. a Geography of Modernism......Page 95
The Cities of Modernism (Malcolm Bradbury......Page 96
Berlin and the Rise of Modernism 1886-96 (James Mcfarlane......Page 105
Vienna and Prague 1890-1928 (franz Kuna......Page 120
Modernism in Russia 1893 - 1917......Page 134
Chicago and New York: Two Versions of American Modernism (eric Hombcrger......Page 151
Revolt, Conservatism and Reaction in Paris 1905-25 (eric Cahm......Page 162
London 1890-1920 (malcolm Bradbury......Page 172
4. Literary Movements......Page 191
Movements, Magazines and Manifestos: the Succession from Naturalism (malcolm Bradbury and James Mcfarlane......Page 192
Symbolism, Decadence and Impressionism (clive Scott......Page 206
Imagism and Vorticism (natan Zach......Page 228
Italian Futurism (judy Rawson......Page 243
Russian Futurism (g. M. Hyde......Page 259
German Expressionism (richard Sheppard......Page 274
Dada and Surrealism (robert Short......Page 292
Part Two......Page 309
5. the Lyric Poetry of Modernism......Page 311
The Modernist Lyric (graham Hough......Page 312
The Crisis of Language (richard Sheppard......Page 323
The Poetry of the City (g. M. Hyde......Page 337
The Prose Poem and Free Verse (clive Scott......Page 349
Poems and Fictions: Stevens, Rilke, Valery (ellman Crasnow......Page 369
German Expressionist Poetry (richard Sheppard) 3......Page 383
6. the Modernist Novel......Page 393
The Introverted Novel (john Fletcher and Malcolm Bradbury......Page 394
The Theme of Consciousness: Thomas Mann (j. P. Stem......Page 416
Svevo, Joyce and Modernist Time (michael Hollington......Page 430
The Janus-faced Novel: Conrad, Musil, Kafka, Mann (franz Kuna......Page 443
The Symbolist Novel: Huysmans to Malraux (melvin J. Friedman......Page 453
The City of Russian Modernist Fiction (donald Fanger......Page 467
The Language of Modernist Fiction: Metaphor and Metonymy (david Lodge......Page 481
7. Modernist Drama......Page 497
Modernist Drama: Origins and Patterns (john Fletcher and James Mcfarlane......Page 499
Intimate Theatre: Maeterlinck to Strindberg (james Mcfarlane......Page 514
Modernist Drama: Wedekind to Brecht (martin Essl in......Page 527
Neo-modernist Drama: Yeats and Pirandello (james Mcfarlane......Page 561
Chronology of Events......Page 571
Brief Biographies......Page 613
Bibliography......Page 641
Index......Page 669
