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When modernism ends is debatable. Though The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature sees Modernism ending by c.1939, [4] with regard to British and American literature, "When (if) Modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred". [5]
American modernist literature was a dominant trend in American literature between World War I and World War II. The modernist era highlighted innovation in the form and language of poetry and prose, as well as addressing numerous contemporary topics, such as race relations, gender and the human condition.
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, [1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
Modernist women writers (4 C, 71 P) Pages in category "Modernist writers" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
This is a list of major poets of the Modernist poetry This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
This is a partial list of modernist women writers. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet; Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author; Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc. Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer; Bryher (1894–1983), British novelist, activist
John Neal: Early American literary nationalist and regionalist; Edgar Allan Poe: Dark Romanticism, Short-Story Theory; T. S. Eliot: Modernism; Harold Bloom: Aestheticism; Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation, On Photography; John Updike: Literary realism/modernism and aestheticist critic; M. H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp (study of Romanticism)
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975) Geodesic Math and How to Use It (1976) Joyce's Voices (University of California Press, 1978) Ulysses (George Allen & Unwin, 1980; rev. ed., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987) A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)