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There are 15 critical essays on Modernism.
Critical Essays on Modernism
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 J. Edward Chamberlain
9,522 words, approx. 32 pages
 In the following essay, Chamberlain links Modernism to the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement.
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Gabriel Josipovici
8,165 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following excerpt, Josipovici studies the relationship between Modernism and the earlier artistic movement of Romanticism.
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Harry Levin
7,449 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Levin reflects on the distinguishing traits and cultural significance of the Modernist era in literature.
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James Sloan Allen
7,447 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Allen considers self-consciousness as a defining trait of the Modernist temperament.
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Philip Hobsbaum
6,940 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following excerpt, Hobsbaum examines Modernism in English poetry.
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William A. Johnsen
6,708 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Johnsen suggests a new definition of Modernism based on the rejection of such "binary oppositions" as order and chaos.
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James W. Tuttleton
6,642 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Tuttleton focuses on conflict between the radically experimental stylistic innovations of Modernist literature and the conservative, often reactionary, attitudes of Modernist authors.
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Robert Conquest
6,630 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, which was originally delivered as a lecture before the Royal Society of Literature in 1979, Conquest questions the ultimate artistic and cultural value of Modernism.
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Anna Balakian
6,627 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Balakian considers the variety of meanings and manifestations of Modernism.
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Lawrence B. Gamache
6,212 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Gamache illuminates the origins and meaning of the term "Modernism " in both literary and nonliterary contexts.
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Robert Martin Adams
6,007 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Adams enumerates reasons for the inadequacy of "Modernism" as a critical-historical term.
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Richard Poirier
5,985 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Poirier confronts the problematic nature of Modernism as it has been variously designated by literary critics and historians.
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Malcolm Bradbury
5,170 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Bradbury focuses on the divergent origins and development of Modernism among American and European writers.
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Martin Esslin
4,957 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Esslin provides an overview of the sources and characteristics of Modernist drama.
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Hugh Kenner
4,555 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, which was originally delivered as a lecture in 1987, Kenner considers the linguistic complexity of Modernist works.
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