Shakespeare Among the Moderns: Toward a Mechanics of Modernist Fiction

by Richard Halpern

Book Overview

Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and provocative book. The preoccupations of such high modernists as T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce set the tone for the critical reception of Shakespeare in the twentieth century. Halpern contends their habits of thought continue to dominate postmodern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484189
• ISBN13: 9780801484186
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher