About the Book
An anthology of sources and documents (essays, articles, reviews, manifestos, illustrations), which offer a teaching resource for understanding the origins, contexts and various literary, political and aesthetic expressions of modernism, the movement which attempts to redefine the relationship between art and life. The anthology covers a wide range of modernist concerns from the period 1900-1939 in Britain, Europe and America. Material selected comprises a manifestation of the culture of modernity, providing insight into the origins, contexts and various expressions of the modernist movement.
Table of Contents:
Towards modernism - aspects of The Modern at the turn of the century: literature departures; extracts from the work of the following authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Edouard Dujardin, Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephan Mallarme, Comte de Lautreamont, Alfred Jarry, Oscar Wilde, Whistler, Walter Pater, August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Henry Adams, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats. Emergent discourses of The Modern - extracts from the work of the following authors: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Charles Darwin, Richard Wilhelm Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lou Salome, Gustave Le Bon, Helena Petrova Blavatsky, Arthur Symons, Edward Gordon Craig, Max Nordau, Oswald Spengler, George Bernard Shaw, Georg Simmei, Wilhem Worringer, G.J. Frazer, Johan Jakob Bachofen, August Bebel, Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, Ferdinand de Saussure, Henri Bergson, William Morris, Adolph Loos, William James, Albert Einstein, Thorstein Veblen, Meynard Keynes. The Avant-Garde - formulations and declarations: Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Courbet, Eugene Zola, T.E. Hulme; Desmond MacCarthy, Roger Fry and Clive Bell, Edward Gordon Craig, Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, Oskar Schlemmer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Eugene Jolas, George Grosz and Wieland Herzfeide; manifestos - Dada, imagism, vorticism, futurism, eccentricism, constructivism, Bauhauss, expressionism, simultaneism, feminism, surrealism. Modernists and modernism - modernism in the 1910s and 1920s: the making of modernist traditions; extracts from the work of the following authors: Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrudes Stein, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolitle, Mina Loy, Ford Maddox Ford, Richard Aldington, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Catherine Carswell, Dorothy Richardson, Natalie Barney, Djuna Barnes, Middleston Murray, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Hugh MacDiarmid, Radcliffe Hall, May Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Graves and Laura Riding; modernism in the 1930s - new realities: extracts from the work of the following authors: Beckett, Joyce et al, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Louis McNiece, Herbert Read, Andre Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, George Lukacs, Theodor Adomo, Walter Benjamin, Virginia Woolf, Meyerhold, Franz Kafka, Alexander Doblin, Sergei Einstein, John Dos Passos, Marianne Moore, Nathanael West, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Samuel Beckett.
