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Ayers, David, 1960-

Modernism : a short introduction / David Ayers. - xii, 153 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

H.D., Ezra Pound and imagism -- T.S. Eliot and modernist reading -- 'The waste land', Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy -- Wallace Stevens and romantic legacy -- Wyndham Lewis : genius and art -- James Joyce : Ulysses and love -- D.H. Lawrence : jazz and life -- Virginia Woolf : art and class -- The modernity of Adorno and Benjamin -- The post-structuralist inflection.

ISBN: 9781405108539 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405108533 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century

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Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9112 / AYE