The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0748637028 | 504 Pages | ePUB | 0.63 MB
by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0748637028 | 504 Pages | ePUB | 0.63 MB
Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and intersects literary, aesthetic, political and cultural terms that in one way or another came into being through the debates, conflicts, co-operations, experiments - individual and collective - that characterised modernism. In concise entries from international experts, it presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals (at once aesthetic and political), highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.
"The book coheres beautifully and highlights the paradox of modernism's opposition to and reliance on past traditions." – A. C. Stout, CHOICE