The Concept of Modernism / / Astradur Eysteinsson.

• VerfasserIn: Eysteinsson, Astradur,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of critical practices relating to nont...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Making of Modernist Paradigms
• 2. Modernism in Literary History
• 3. Reading Modernism through Postmodernism
• 4. The Avant-Garde as/or Modernism?
• 5. Realism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Interruption
• Bibliography
• Index