modernism (literature)

Presents a comprehensive survey of literature and modernist art in England, Ireland, and Europe during the early twentieth century.

A critical analysis of literary depictions of remorse by twentieth-century authors, examining works by Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, and others.

Contains a representative selection of critical essays on the fiction of principal British writers between the two world wars.

Contains twenty essays in which various authors explore the nature and history of American Modernism.

Examines ten modern writers whose works have reshaped our concept of literature.