| #501411 in Books | Wiley-Blackwell | 2007-01-05 | 2006-12-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x.60 x6.10l,1.83 | File type: PDF | 264 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great book--hope she writes more like this|By Read|This is such a powerful book. Mahaffey is such a gifted writer and thinker. She explains why modernist texts are difficult and what (and how) they teach their readers. Her prose is accessible and moving. It makes you want to invite her for coffee. Great book--hope she writes more like this.||"Ambitiously diverse and unsettling, a book that responds provocatively to the challenges it poses." --David Bradshaw, University of Oxford | |"In this sharp, thoughtful and clearly-written book, modernism is not simply a descriptive
This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
Covers a wide range of authors up...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? | Vicki Mahaffey. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
