Introducing Postmodernism

Introducing Postmodernism

Author: Richard Appignanesi

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9781840465754

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Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. This expanded edition brilliantly elucidates this hall of mirrors with Richard Appignanesi's witty and easy-to-follow text and the inspired cartoonist Chris Garratt.


Introducing Modernism

Introducing Modernism

Author: Chris Rodrigues

Publisher: Graphic Guides

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848311169

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A superb graphic guide to the shockwave of innovations that hit art, architecture, music, cinemas and literature during the early and mid-twentieth century.


Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Author: Peter Gay

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780393052053

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This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.


Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Christopher Butler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-07-29

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0192804413

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A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life


Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture

Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture

Author: Derek Gladwin

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1942954697

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Gastro-Modernism ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.


Viral Modernism

Viral Modernism

Author: Elizabeth Outka

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0231546319

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The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by World War One and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. She investigates the miasmic manifestations of the pandemic and its spectral dead in interwar Anglo-American literature, uncovering the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. Viral Modernism examines how literature and culture represented the virus’s deathly fecundity, as writers wrestled with the scope of mass death in the domestic sphere amid fears of wider social collapse. Outka analyzes overt treatments of the pandemic by authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe and its subtle presence in works by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats. She uncovers links to the disease in popular culture, from early zombie resurrection to the resurgence of spiritualism. Viral Modernism brings the pandemic to the center of the era, revealing a vast tragedy that has hidden in plain sight.


American Modernism

American Modernism

Author: R. Roger Remington

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780300098167

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Presents an account of a key period in American graphic design as it manifested itself in various media, covering major historical influences and significant works.


Modernism and Its Margins

Modernism and Its Margins

Author: Anthony L. Geist

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780815332619

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Annotating Modernism

Annotating Modernism

Author: Amanda Golden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-04

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1317180631

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Making extensive use of archival materials by Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton, Amanda Golden reframes the relationship between modernism and midcentury poetry. While Golden situates her book among other materialist histories of modernism, she moves beyond the examination of published works to address poets’ annotations in their personal copies of modernist texts. A consideration of the dynamics of literary influence, Annotating Modernism analyzes the teaching strategies of midcentury poets and the ways they read modernists like T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and W. B. Yeats. Situated within a larger rethinking of modernism, Golden’s study illustrates the role of midcentury poets in shaping modernist discourse.


Introducing Barthes

Introducing Barthes

Author: Philip Thody

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Published: 2015-03-14

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1848319754

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INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, their ideal self-image and the values of their society. Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Barthes' application of these ideas to literature, popular culture, clothes and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960s. It goes on to describe how his later insistence on pleasure, the delights of sexual non-conformity, and the freedom of the reader to interpret literary texts in the light of ideologies such as existentialism, Marxism and Freudianism, as well as structuralism itself, continues to make him one of the most dynamic and challenging of modern writers. This is the perfect companion volume to Introducing Semiotics.