Description |
1 online resource |
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Keywords in literature and culture |
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Keywords in literature and culture.
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Contents |
Modernism: Keywords; Copyright; Contents; Credits and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Unsettling Modernism; Note on References; A; Advertising; References; Atom, Atomic; References; Avant-Garde; References; B; Best Seller; References; Bigness, Smallness; References; Biography, New Biography; References; C; Common Man; References; Common Mind, Group Thinking; References; Conventional, Conventionality; References; Coterie, Bloomsbury; References; D; Democracy; References; Difficulty, Obscurity; References; E; Einstein; References; Empire, Imperialism; References; F; Fascism; References |
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Form, FormalismReferences; G; God, Gods; References; H; Hamlet; References; Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow; References; Hygiene; References; I; Impression, Impressionism; References; International, Internationalism; References; M; Manifesto; References; Modern, Modernism; References; N; Negro, New Negro; References; P; Personality, Impersonality; References; Primitive; References; Propaganda; References; Q; Queer, Gay; References; R; Race; References; Readers, Reading; References; Reality, Realism; References; Rhythm; References; S; Sentimental, Sentimentality; References; Shock, Shell Shock |
Summary |
Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in "written modernism," tracking cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of change. Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing cultural thought at the heart of modernismGoes beyond constructions of "plural modernisms" to reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a simultaneous and interlocking mixDr |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 30, 2014) |
Subject |
English language -- Etymology.
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English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Terminology
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Social structure -- Terminology
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Culture -- Terminology
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Sociolinguistics.
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Vocabulary.
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sociolinguistics.
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Culture
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English language
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English language -- Etymology
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Modernism (Literature)
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Social structure
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Sociolinguistics
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Vocabulary
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Genre/Form |
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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Terminology
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hammond, Adam, 1981- author.
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Peat, Alexandra, 1976- author.
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ISBN |
9781118325964 |
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1118325966 |
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