Cuddy-Keane, Melba
Modernism: Keywords
Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in “written modernism,” tracking cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of change.
Short-listed for The Modernist Studies Association 2015 Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection
- Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing cultural thought at the heart of modernism
- Goes beyond constructions of “plural modernisms” to reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a simultaneous and interlocking mix
- Draws from a vast compilation of more than a thousand sources, ranging from vernacular prose to experimental literary forms
- Spans the “long” modernist period, from its incipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath
- Approaches English written modernism in its own terms, tempering explanations of modernism often derived from European poets and painters
- Models research techniques based on digital databases and collaborative work in the humanities
Keywords: literature, modernist studies, Raymond Williams, written modernism, scholarly reference, semantics, avant-garde, bloomsbury, biography, Einstein, fascism, modern, realism, sentimentality, new woman, words, language, Literary Theory, 20th Century English Literature, Literary Theory, 20th Century English Literature
- Author(s)
- Cuddy-Keane, Melba
- Hammond, Adam
- Peat, Alexandra
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).
- Page amount
- 288 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118325971
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405186551