San Antonio College Library

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing--a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why. Modernism, Josipovici suggests, is only superficially a reaction to industrialization of a revolution in diction and form; essentially, it is art arriving at a consciousness...

"This volume presents in translation for the first time a collection of twenty-five stories and novellas representative of Japanese authors who worked in the modernist idiom from 1913 to 1938. Its prefatory materials provide a systematic overview of the literary movement's salient features - anti-naturalism, cosmopolitanism, the concept of the double self, and actionism - and describe how 'modanizumu' evolved from its early "jagged edges" into a sophisticated...

"American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities. Drawing on extensive original research, Paula Rabinowitz unearths the far-reaching political, social, and aesthetic impact of the pulps between the late 1930s and early 1960s"--Dust jacket. "Focusing on important episodes...

"Imagining modernism as a series of conversations, this study locates Edith Wharton's voice in those debates - providing a new and thoughtful perspective. In chapters on French Impressionism and subjectivity, birth control and prostitution, masculinity, war and civilization, marriage and divorce, and the nature of the artist, this book traces Wharton's positions on the social, cultural, and literary issues that shaped modernism."--BOOK JACKET.

"Author Linda De Roche examines the writing of the time to look beyond the common conceptions of the Roaring Twenties and instead reflect on the era's complexities and contradictions, including how gender and race influenced social mores. The book profiles key American literature of the time, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Sinclair Lewis's Babbit, Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and...