Textbook
Modernism: A Short IntroductionISBN: 978-1-4051-0853-9
Paperback
168 pages
August 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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‘David Ayers provides the reader with a series of interlacing
readings – all of them original and provocative – of
some major texts of Anglo-American modernism. Ayers’s central
theme is the relation of the linguistic to the social in all its
complex “modernist” manifestations. The theories of
Benjamin and Adorno, as well as of Derrida, provide an important
base for understanding the great poetries and fictions of the
period. But Modernism is first and foremost a book of close
and acute readings of specific poems and novels – a book at
once richly textured and yet also enjoyable to read.’
Marjorie Perloff