Modernism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism)

Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Note on the Texts......Page 12
Part I......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Part II......Page 73
1 Modernism and Romanticism......Page 75
Romantic Image......Page 79
Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?......Page 93
2 Realism and Formalism......Page 111
The Ideology of Modernism......Page 114
Reconciliation Under Duress......Page 126
3 Modernism and the Avant-Garde......Page 134
Adorno: A Critical Introduction......Page 135
Theory of the Avant-Garde......Page 143
4 Modernism, the Masses, and the Culture Industry......Page 153
Mass Culture as Woman......Page 156
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: A ‘Black and Grinning Muse’......Page 172
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: Down at Tom’s Place......Page 176
T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: An ‘Avant-Garde’ Program......Page 185
5 Modernity and the City......Page 193
The Metropolis and Mental Life......Page 194
The Mire of the Macadam......Page 202
The Invisible Flâneuse:Women and the Literature of Modernity......Page 211
6 Regendering Modernism......Page 228
‘A Tangled Mesh of Modernists’ (diagram)......Page 230
‘Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter from Paris’......Page 232
‘Modernism and Modernity: Engendering Literary History’......Page 240
7 Publishing Modernism......Page 256
The Price of Modernism......Page 259
8 Late Modernism......Page 284
The Epistemology of Late Modernism......Page 288
Late Modernist Poetics......Page 293
Late Modernist Poetics......Page 300
Further Reading......Page 309
Index......Page 315