What was Modernism?

Synopsis: Explores the concept of modernism in relation to T S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’. Looks first at poetry and then the same areas in the novel. The language of modernist poetry and novel writing, the use of allusions in modernist literature, the structure of modernist works and the implications for the reader are all subjects of discussion, as is the idea that modernism arose out of a specific historical context, the first world war.
Series: Literature in the Modern World, Course A319
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: out of distribution; 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Modernism; poetry; Woolf, Virginia

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Barbara Everett
Frank Kermode

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