twentieth-century literature Twentieth-Century Literature
Reading T.S. Eliot Four Quartets and the Journey toward Understanding
Modernism
G. Douglas Atkins, Professor of English, University of Kansas, USA
A Sourcebook
‘Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly and, perhaps most importantly, human.' - Tod Marshall, Gonzaga University, USA
Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University, UK
‘This book belongs on any undergraduate Modernism course… order it for your students.’ - Gary Day, Times Higher Education Textbook Guide A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material drawing connections to the major Modernist texts, and a full introduction outlining the key events, social and political movements, and cultural issues of the time. June 2008 Hardback Paperback
336pp £60.00 £21.99
This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday. January 2012 Hardback
196pp £52.00
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Angels of Modernism Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 Suzanne Hobson, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Modernisms A Literary Guide 2nd edition Peter Nicholls, University of Sussex, UK
Peter Nicholls provides original analytic accounts of the main Modernist movements. Close readings of key texts monitor the histories of Futurism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. . November 2008 424pp Paperback £20.99
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The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentiethcentury debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age. October 2011 Hardback
240pp £50.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-27539-3
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