title: Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)
author:  Peter Childs 
description: In attempting to answer the question what is modernism? Childs moves gracefully from considerations of Adorno, to Barthes, to Habermas, to Showalter, to Wittgenstein.<br /><b>Victorian Poetry</b>
zlib_text: MODERNISM
  Second edition
  The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and
  early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt
  today. Modernism introduces and analyses what amounted to nothing less
  than a literary and cultural revolution.
  In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement
  in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:
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  details the origins of the modernist movement and the influence of
  thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein;
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  explores the radical changes that occurred in the literature, drama, art
  and film of the period;
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  traces ‘modernism at work’ in anglophone literatures, especially in writ-
  ings by a range of key figures including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf,
  Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield,
  T. S. Eliot, and many others;
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  reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism.
  At once accessible and critically informed, Modernis