HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Reader

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

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Semiotics

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE


SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

  • Twentieth Century Literature by Women

Post-colonial:

  • Twentieth Century Non-Western Literature

ASSOCIATIONS

Modernism:

Contemporary:

  • Société d' Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC)

AUTHORS

Modernists:

Contemporary:

CONFERENCES

2008:

2007:

  • Modernism and the Emotions, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, June 1

  • Autonomy and Commitment in Modernist British Literature, CERVEC Conference, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, March 30-31
  • Thirty-Fifth Annual 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, February 22-24

2006:

  • Literature, Theory and Criticism: the Critical Writings of 20th and 21st Century Writers, Société d' Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC), Université Montpellier III, October 20-21
  • Out of the Archives, Eighth Annual Conference, Modernist Studies Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 19-22

  • American Modernism: Cultural Transactions, Department of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University, September 22-23

  • Contemporary Fiction: the Legacies of Modernism, Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, July 7-8

2005:

  • Impersonality and Emotion in Modernist British Arts, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, France, February 4-5

2004:

  • Other Modernisms / Modernism's Others, Modernist Studies Association, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 21-25

  • Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth Century British literature, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, France, 

2003:

  • Modernist Cultures, Modernist Studies Association, University of Birmingham, September 25-28

  • Archiving Modernism, University of Alberta, July 25-27

  • Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth Century British literature, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, France, 

2002:

2001:

2000:

  • New Modernisms II, Modernist Studies Association, University of Pennsylvania, October 12-15

1999:

  • New Modernisms, Inaugural Conference, Modernist Studies Association, Pennsylvania State University, October 7-10

Annual:

COURSES

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JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Modernism:

    • Contemporary:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Modernism:

    • Contemporary:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Modernism:

      • Alexander, Michael, and James McGonigal, eds.  Sons of Ezra.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

      • Allen, Donald, ed.  The New American Poetry
      • Bell, Michael, ed.  The Context of English Literature, 1900-1930.  London: Methuen, 1980.
      • Bergonzi, Bernard, ed.  Innovations: Essays on Art and Ideas
      • Bloom, Clive ed.  Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Vol. 1: 1900-1929. 
      • Bloom, Clive, and Gary Day, eds.  Literature and Culture in Modern Britain.  Vol. 3: 1956-1999.
      • Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane, eds.  Modernism, 1890-1930.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
      • Bradshaw, David, ed.  A Concise Companion to Modernism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
      • Cowley, Malcolm, ed. After the Genteel Tradition
      • Cox, C. B., and A. E. Dyson, eds.  Modern Poetry: Studies in Practical Criticism
      • Cruickshank, J., ed.  The Twentieth Century.  Vol. 6 of French Literature and its Background
      • Day, Gary, ed.  Literature and Culture in Modern Britain.  Vol. 2: 1930-1955. 
      • Dettmar, Kevin, ed.  Rereading the New: a Backward Glance at Modernism.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992.
      • Ford, Boris, ed.  From James to Eliot.  Vol. 7 of  The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, . 
      • Ford, Boris, ed.  The Modern Age.  London: , 1961.
      • Gross, John, ed.  The Modern Movement.  London: Harvill, 1992.
      • Howe, Irving, ed.  The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts.  New York: , 1976.
      • Kiely, Robert, ed.  Modernism Reconsidered
      • Levenson, Michael, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Modernism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
      • Reeves, James, ed. Georgian Poetry
    • Contemporary:

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  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Modernism:
      • Alvarez, A.  The Shaping Spirit
      • Barzun, Jacques.  Classic, Romantic, and Modern
      • Bergonzi, Bernard.  The Twentieth Century.  Vol. 7 of The Sphere History of Literature in the English Language
      • Berman, Marshall.  All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: the Experience of Modernity.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
      • Blackmur, R. P.  Form and Value in Modern Poetry
      • Bogan, Louise.  Achievement in American Poetry, 1900-1950.
      • Bowra, C. M.  The Background of Modern Poetry
      • Bowra, C. M.  The Creative Experiment
      • Bradbury, Malcolm.  The Social Context of Modern English Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1971.
      • Brower, Reuben.  Twentieth Century Literature in Retrospect
      • Brown, Dennis.  The Modernist Self in Twentieth Century Literature: a Study in Self-Fragmentation
      • Bruns, Gerald.  Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language.
      • Butler, Christopher.  Early Modernism.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
      • Callinescu, Matei.  Five Faces of Modernism: Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1972.
      • Chiari, Joseph.  The Aesthetics of Modernism.  London: Vision, 1970.
      • Childs, Peter.  Modernism.
      • Childs, Peter.  The Twentieth Century in Poetry: a Critical Survey.
      • Coffman, Stanley.  Imagism: a Chapter in the History of Modern Poetry.
      • Connolly, Cyril.  The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France, and America, 1880-1950.
      • Daiches, David.  Poetry and the Modern World: a Study of Poetry in England, 1900-1939
      • Donoghue, Denis.  The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature.  London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
      • Draper, Ronald.  An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English
      • Emig, Rainer.  Modernism in Poetry: Motivations, Structures and Limits
      • .  London: Longman, 1995.
      • Evans, B. I.  Literature Between the Wars.  London: Methuen, 1948.
      • Eysteinsson, Astradur.  The Concept of Modernism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.
      • Faulkner, Peter.  Modernism.  London: Methuen, 1977.
      • Feder, Lillian.  Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry.
      • Fekete, John.  The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
      • Fokkema, Douwe Wessel.  Literary History, Modernism and Postmodernism.  Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 1984.
      • Frank, Joseph.  "Spatial Form in Modern Literature."  Sewanee Review 53.2-3 (1945): . Rpt. in The Idea of Spatial Form.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991.  Rpt. in Hoffman and Murphy, 63-76.  Rpt. in McKeon, 784-802.
      • Fraser, G. S.  Vision and Rhetoric: Studies in Modern Poetry
      • Friedrich, Hugo.  The Structure of Modern Poetry: from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century
      • Fussell, Paul.  The Great War and Modern Memory.  Oxford: OUP, 1975.
      • Gay, Peter.  The Lure of Heresy: from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond.  New York: Norton, 2007.
      • Gikandi, Simon.  "Race and the Modernist Aesthetic."  Writing and Race.  Ed. Tim Youngs.  London: Longman, .  147-165.
      • Graves, Robert, and Laura Riding.  A Survey of Modern Poetry
      • Gray, Richard.  American Poetry of the Twentieth Century.
      • Gregory, Maurice, and Marya Zaturenska.  A History of American Poetry, 1900-1940.
      • Gross, Harvey.  Sound and Form in Modern Poetry.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.
      • Hamburger, Michael.  The Truth of Modern Poetry: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s.
      • Harmer, J. B.   Victory in Limbo: Imagism 1907-1917
      • Hermans, T.  The Structure of Modernist POetry.  London: Croom Helm, 1982.
      • Hough, Graham.   Image and Experience: Studies in a Literary Revolution
      • Howarth, Peter.  British Poetry in the Age of Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
      • Kenner, Hugh.  The Pound Era.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1971.
      • Langbaum, Robert.  The Modern Spirit; Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1970.
      • Langbaum, Robert.  The Mysteries of Identity: a Theme in Modern Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1977.
      • Lodge, David.  The Modes of Modern Writing.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977.
      • Lowell, Amy.  Tendencies in Modern American Poetry.
      • McGann, Jerome.  Black Riders: the Visible Language of Modernism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.
      • Meisel, Perry.  The Myth of the Modern: a Study in British Literature and Criticism After 1850.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
      • Nicholls, Peter.  Modernisms: a Literary Guide.  London: Macmillan, 1995.

      • Paz, Octavio.  Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde
      • Perkins, David.  From the 1890s to the High Modernist ModeVol. 1 of A History of Modern Poetry.  
      • Perkins, David.  Modernism and After.  Vol. 2 of A History of Modern Poetry
      • Pinto, V. De Sola.  Crisis in English Poetry, 1880-1914.
      • Rainey, Lawrence.  Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.

      • Read, Herbert.  Form in Modern Poetry.
      • Read, Herbert.  The Philosophy of Modern Art.  1955.

      • Rosenthal, M. L.  The Modern Poets: a Critical Introduction
      • Ross, Robert.  The Georgian Revolt, 1910-1922.
      • Schmidt, Michael.  Reading Modern Poetry.
      • Sherry, Vincent.  Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism.  1993.

      • Smith, S.  The Origins of Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Yeats, and the Rhetoric of Renewal.  Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
      • Stead, C. K.  The New Poetic.  London: , 1964.

      • Steele, Timothy.  Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter.  Little Rock: U of Arkansas P, 1990.

      • Surette, Leon.  The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and the Occult.  Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 1993.
      • Swinnerton, Frank.  The Georgian Literary Scene, 1910-1935
      • Symons, Julian.  Makers of the New: the Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939.  London: Andre Deutsch, 1987.
      • Unger, Leonard.  Seven Modern American Poets: an Introduction.
      • Ward, A. C.  Twentieth Century English Literature
      • Weightman, J.  The Concept of the Avant-Garde: Explorations in Modernism.  London: , 1973.

      • Weston, Richard.  Modernism.  Phaidon, 1996.

      • Williams, Keith, and Steven Matthews.  Rewriting the 30s: Modernism and After
      • Williams, Raymond.  Culture and Society, 1780-1950
      • Wilson, Edmund.  Axel's Castle: a Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930.  New York: Charles Scribner, 1931.
      • York, William Tindall.  Forces in Modern British Literature, 1885-1956
    • Contemporary:

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