Institutions Of Modernism

This account of modernism and its place in public culture looks at where modernism was produced and how it was transmitted to particular audiences. The individual tales of figures like Joyce, Pound, Marinetti and Eliot provide perspectives on the larger story of modernism itself.

In this 2005 book, Jaffe examines the interactions of modernist literary fame and celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.

The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.

Articulates the interwar modernist response to the crisis of liberal world order after 1919.

Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett. Includes a generous selection of Continental texts, enabling readers to trace modernism’s dialogue with the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and the Frankfurt School. Supported by helpful annotations, and an extensive bibliography. Allows readers to encounter anew the extraordinary revolution in language that transformed the aesthetics of the modern world .

This book examines the problems faced by innovative writers working in a late modernist era dominated by Joyce, Eliot and Pound.

A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Analyzes the complex unity of modernist culture, paying special attention to artistic, intellectual, and social institutions that embody value.