Literature in the modern world walder pdf

The nineteenth-century novel. Borrow Listen. Print Culture in Southern Africa. The realist novel. Dickens and Religion. Athol Fugard. Literature in the modern world. Novelists defied all expectations. Writers mixed images from the past with modern languages and themes, creating a collage of styles. The inner workings of consciousness were a common subject for modernists. This preoccupation led to a form of narration called stream of consciousness. Eliot and Ezra Pound, are well known for their experimental Modernist works.

Several great English poets died or were wounded in WWI. For many writers, the world was becoming a more absurd place every day. Modernist authors depicted this absurdity in their works. The idea of a poem as a riddle to be cracked had its beginnings in the Modernist period.

Symbolism was not a new concept in literature, but the Modernists' particular use of symbols was an innovation. They left much more to the reader's imagination than earlier writers. This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one? Previews available in: English. Add another edition? Literature in the modern world edited by Dennis Walder.

Donate this book to the Internet Archive library. If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Borrow Listen. Want to Read. Walder, Dennis ed. Literature in the modern world: critical essays and documents. Fully revised and updated second edition of book including fifty-nine critical essays and documentsorganised in twelve sections with headnotes and new general introduction, offering a unique combination of English, American, European and post-colonial perspectives on literary studies from the s to the present day.