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(HIGH) MODERNISM
I use the term Modernism here to refer
to a set of assumptions about literature and its interpretation
which inform the work of a number of authors and critics,
ranging from Yeats and Eliot to Auden and Thomas, during the
period stretching from about the beginning of the first world
war to the end of the second world war. This school of
literature and literary criticism is unified by a rejection of
the main tenets of both Romantic poetry (especially the notion
of literature as a form of self-expression) and the realist
novel / drama, the adoption of increasingly nihilistic points of
view, the exploration of novel perspectives on the nature of
consciousness (e.g. surrealism), and the use of innovative
literary forms (e.g. 'stream of consciousness').
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ASSOCIATIONS
CONFERENCES
2007:
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Modernism and the
Emotions, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature,
University of Warwick, June 1
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Autonomy and Commitment in Modernist British
Literature, CERVEC Conference, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier
III, March 30-31
2006:
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Literature, Theory and Criticism: the Critical Writings of 20th
and 21st Century Writers, Société d' Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines
(SEAC), Université Montpellier III, France, October 20-21
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Out of the Archives, Eighth Annual Conference,
Modernist Studies Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 19-22
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American Modernism: Cultural Transactions,
Department of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University, September
22-23
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Anglo-American Aesthetics: Innovations and Economies
of Influence, Department of English, School of Arts, Brunel
University, July 12-15
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Contemporary Fiction: the Legacies
of Modernism, Centre for Modernist Studies,
University of Sussex, July 7-8
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Phenomenology and Modernism, Maison Française
d'Oxford, June 24
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Legacies of Modernism: the After-life of Modernism
from an Art Theoretical, Art Historical and
Philosophical Point of View, Trinity College, University of Oxford,
June 9
2005:
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Impersonality and Emotion in
Modernist British Arts, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III,
France, February 4-5
2004:
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Other Modernisms / Modernism's Others,
Modernist Studies Association, University of British Columbia and Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, October 21-25
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Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth
Century British literature, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier
III, France,
2003:
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Modernist
Cultures, Modernist Studies Association, University of Birmingham,
September 25-28
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Archiving Modernism, University of Alberta, July
25-27
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Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth
Century British literature, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier
III, France,
2002:
2001:
2000:
1999:
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New
Modernisms, Inaugural Conference, Modernist Studies Association,
Pennsylvania State University, October 7-10
Annual:
COURSES
JOURNALS
SOURCES: PRIMARY
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- Anthologies:
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Arts:
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Critical Theory:
- Bentley, Eric, ed. The Importance of Scrutiny. New
York: New York UP, 1948.
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Faulkner, Peter, ed. A Modernist Reader: Modernism in
England, 1910-1930. London: Batsford, 1986.
- Selected Individual Works:
On-Line:
SOURCES: SECONDARY
Off-Line:
- Anthologies:
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Arts:
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Alexander, Michael, and James McGonigal, eds. Sons
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Blackmur, R. P. Form and Value in Modern Poetry
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A
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1987.
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