Waking giants : the presence of the past in modernism / Herbert N. Schneidau
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #405110
ISBN: 0195068629
Physical description; (xi, 279 pages). Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Century's corpse outleant : Hardy and modernism -- Safe as houses : Forster as Cambridge anthropologist -- Primal scene in the Secret agent : sex and violence in the nightmare universe -- Personal past recaptured : Anderson & Sons -- Ezra Pound : the archaeology of the immanent. Subjects; 1900-1999. English literature 20th century History and criticism. American literature 20th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. Modernism (Literature) United States. History in literature. Memory in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. American literature. English literature. History in literature. Memory in literature. Modernism (Literature). Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries. English literature 20th century History and criticism. American literature 20th century History and criticism.
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