Modernism: A Cultural History

by Tim Armstrong

Book Overview

The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres but also by its links with broader cultural areas in which the 'modern' is implicated and debated, and which inform its representational modes. Modernism: A Cultural History explores modernism's struggle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745629822
• ISBN13: 9780745629827
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"