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Author:

Puymbroeck, Birgit Van, author.

Title:

Modernist literature and European identity / Birgit Van Puymbroeck.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

viii, 165 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Modernism (Literature)--Europe.
European literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of modernist texts. Authors such as Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Aim Csaire, and Nancy Cunard each developed their own notion of Europe. They engaged in transnational networks and experimented with new forms of writing, supporting or challenging a European ideal. Building on insights gained from global modernism and network theory, this book suggests that rather than defining Europe through a set of core principles, we may also regard it as an open or weak construct, a crossroads where different authors and views converged and collided.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature

ISBN:

9780367516352
0367516357

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1152488904

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)