Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? / Edition 1

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? / Edition 1

by Vicki Mahaffey
ISBN-10:
0631213074
ISBN-13:
9780631213079
Pub. Date:
01/05/2007
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0631213074
ISBN-13:
9780631213079
Pub. Date:
01/05/2007
Publisher:
Wiley
Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? / Edition 1

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? / Edition 1

by Vicki Mahaffey
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Overview

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 to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys.
  • Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631213079
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 01/05/2007
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Vicki Mahaffey is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Award for teaching. Her previous publications include Reauthorizing Joyce (1988) and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experience (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Introduction.

1. Why Read Challenging Literature?.

Part II: Readings.

2. Partnering: Holmes and Watson, Author and Reader, Lover and Loved, Man and Wife.

3. Window Painting: The Art of Blocking Understanding.

4. Watchman, What of the Night?.

Conclusion.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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 category pigeon-holing a literary period; it is made both more problematic (as when its ending is linked with the holocaust) and empowering. Boldly redefining the field, Mahaffey throws a truly original light on the social, political and ethical relevance of main modernist 'chronicles of disorder,' showing convincingly how they challenge repressive authorities as well as the reader's ingrained passivity."
--Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

"This intelligent, strongly argued book reconceives the term 'modernist' to mean modern literature that challenges the reader because of its originality, complexity, obscurity, or transgressive nature." (Choice)

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