modernism in literature

Examines the lives of four authors--Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and E. M. Foster--in 1922. A pivotal year in literature, 1922 also marked moments within these artists' lives when they were struggling, but ultimately found their voice once again.

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

In the tradition established by literary heavyweights who came before, modern writers of all stripes and backgrounds have continued to entertain and to confront the social, cultural, and psychological realities of the timesincluding everything from racial identity to war to technologywith their own flair and insight.

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

Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the post-World War II era, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.

Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Modernist period 1900 to 1945, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.

Examines short stories, poems, plays, and novels by literary greats such as Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Whitman, and Hemingway to show twenty-first-century readers the pleasure and power of reading.

Presents an overview of American literature from 1910 to 1945 examining the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time, providing information on Surrealism, Expressionism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Modernism, and including a discussion of T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck, and more.