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Author Cuddy-Keane, Melba, author

Title Modernism : keywords / Melba Cuddy-Keane, Adam Hammond, Alexandra Peat
Edition First edition
Published Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Keywords in literature and culture
Keywords in literature and culture.
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
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.
English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Modernism (Literature) -- Terminology
Social structure -- Terminology
Culture -- Terminology
Sociolinguistics.
Vocabulary.
sociolinguistics.
Culture
English language
English language -- Etymology
Modernism (Literature)
Social structure
Sociolinguistics
Vocabulary
Genre/Form Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Terminology
Form Electronic book
Author Hammond, Adam, 1981- author.
Peat, Alexandra, 1976- author.
ISBN 9781118325964
1118325966