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  • Rhythmical Subjects

    The Measures of the Modern

    by Laura Marcus ...
    Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields of inquiry at a time when modern disciplines were still in the process of formation or consolidation. The concentration on 'rhythm ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Dreams of Modernity

    Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema

    by Laura Marcus ...
    Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $24.59 USD

  • Moving Modernisms

    Motion, Technology, and Modernity

    Edited by David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach ...
    The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture

    Edited by Laura Marcus, Ankhi Mukherjee ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approachesDiscusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and ... Read more

    $157.00 USD

  • Autobiography

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Laura Marcus ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tenth Muse

    Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period

    by Laura Marcus ...
    The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Autobiography

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Laura Marcus ...
    Narrated by Esther Wane ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

    Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Edited by Michael Levenson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

    by Peter Howarth ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American ... Read more

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  • Modernism

    by Peter Childs ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:details the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

    Edited by Morag Shiach ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns ... Read more

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  • Difference In View: Women And Modernism

    Edited by Gabriele Griffin ...
    This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide ... Read more

    $62.99 USD