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100			_aJeff Wallace _9198
245			_aBeginning modernism
260			_aManchester _bManchester University Press _c2011
300			_axi, 314 p. _bPB _c20x12 cm.
365			_2General _a2216 _b1722.4 _d2152.92 _e20 _f13-09-2021 _c£ _m£19.99 per item
500			_aEnglish
520			_aModernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite. Beginning Modernism offers a clear and reader-friendly introduction to this complex and invigorating subject. With an emphasis on the close reading of modernist artefacts, from literary texts to buildings, paintings to musical compositions, the book aims to demystify the notorious difficulties of ‘high’ modernism, showing them to be an incentive rather than an obstacle to understanding and exploration. At the same time, it highlights the emergence of a new modernist studies, emphasizing the eclectic, the popular, and the global or transnational. Readers are encouraged to situate their reading of modernist literature within a wider set of cultural contexts, which include: visual art; ideas of time and space; sculpture; photography; film; politics; technology; sexuality; primitivism; architecture; dance; drama, and music. Beginning Modernism will be of interest both to the general reader, and to undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of literary studies, art history and cultural studies.
650			_aModernism (Art) _9179
650			_2 Modernism (Literature)
650			_2Modernism (Aesthetics)
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