TY - BOOK N2 - "This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture"-- AB - "This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. Now fully updated and enhanced with four new chapters, it addresses the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism today. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture"-- T1 - The Cambridge companion to modernism / DA - 2011. CY - Cambridge ; CY - New York : AU - Levenson, Michael H. ET - 2nd ed. CN - PN56.M54 CN - PN56.M54 PB - Cambridge University Press, PP - Cambridge ; PP - New York : PY - 2011. ID - 433438 KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Modernism (Art) SN - 9781107010635 SN - 1107010632 SN - 9780521281256 (pbk.) SN - 0521281253 (pbk.) TI - The Cambridge companion to modernism / LK - http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/10635/cover/9781107010635.jpg LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011026298-b.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011026298-d.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011026298-t.html UR - http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/10635/cover/9781107010635.jpg UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011026298-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011026298-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011026298-t.html ER -