Modernism by Malcolm Bradbury
A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
An accessible, wide-ranging survey of early 20th-century European literary modernism that traces how writers responded to rapid social, scientific, and political change by breaking conventional forms and experimenting with narrative voice, time, and language. It maps major figures and movements—symbolism, impressionism, high modernism—and examines techniques such as stream of consciousness, fragmentation, and myth-making, while situating these innovations within contexts like urbanization, war, psychoanalysis, and the decline of Victorian certainties. Through close readings and cultural-historical analysis, the book shows how modernist aesthetics reshaped the novel, poetry, and drama.
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