About the Book: Modernism, 1910 1945, Image to Apocalypse
This essential guide explores and celebrates the rise and development of
modernist and avant garde literatures and theories in the period 1910 1945, from
Imagism to the Apocalypse movement. Jane Goldman charts transitions in writing,
reading, performing and publishing practices, and in international groupings and
regroupings of writers and artists, and interrogates the term Modernism which
labels the era. Goldman introduces students to the work of many canonical high
modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and
Virginia Woolf, and samples the work of other important modernist figures,
including Nathanael