Modernism

Note on the Texts.

Part I.

Introduction.

Part II.

1. Modernism and Romanticism.

Romantic Image.

Frank Kermode.

‘Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?’.

Marjorie Perloff.

2. Realism and Formalism.

The Ideology of Modernisim.

George Lucas.

Reconciliation Under Duress.

Theodor Adorno.

3. Modernism and the Avant-Garde.

Adorno: A Critical Introduction.

Simon Jarvis.

Theory of the Avant-Garde.

Peter Bürger.

4. Modernism, the Masses, and the Culture Industry.

‘Mass Culture as Woman’.

Andreas Huyssen.

T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: A 'Black and Grinning Music'.

David Chinitz.

T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: Down at Tom's Place.

David Chinitz.

T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: An 'Advant-Garde' Program.

David Chinitz.

5. Modernity and the City.

‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’.

Georg Simmel.

The Mire of Macadam.

Marshall Berman.

‘The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity.

Janet Wolff.

6. Regendering Modernism.

‘A Tangled Mesh of Modernists’ (diagram).

Bonnie Kime Scott.

‘Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter from Paris.

Shari Benstock.

‘Modernism and Modernity: Engendering Literary History’.

Rita Felski.

7. Publishing Modernism.

‘The Price of Modernism.

Lawrence Rainey.

8. Late Modernism.

‘The Epistemology of Late Modernism.

Alan Wilde.

Late Modernism Poetics.

Anthony Mellors.

Further Reading.

Index