Gloria Glikin Fromm, 61, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specialized in teaching and writing about modernist literature. She was the author of a biography of novelist ...

Elias Canetti, the German-language writer, born to a Bulgarian Sephardic family, who won the Nobel Prize in 1981, tells in his memoirs of his daily meetings in a Viennese café during the 1920s with a ...

Bloomsbury, Strachey, modernism, ethics, literature, and radio. Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey, modernist literature, ethical philosophy, and queer theory. Todd Avery specializes in British ...

At a rare moment of rhetorical uncertainty in his now classic Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson acknowledges a source of challenge to the modern/postmodern ...

In July of 1922, British artist and author Wyndham Lewis dropped in on Ezra Pound at his studio in Paris and found him boxing with a “splendidly built young man, stripped to the waist, and with a ...

Hugh Kenner, the quintessential expert on 20th century English-language literature who was equally at ease excoriating encyclopedias or explaining how Ezra Pound and James Joyce founded modernist ...

I take it that our task here is to examine what, from a novelist’s perspective anyway, are the uses and abuses of literary modernism and its progeny, a hundred years on. The date is of course slightly ...

Surveys major literary trends from 1900-1945 in the Anglo-American tradition, including the characteristics of literary modernism. Covers both prose and poetry, as well as the relationship between ...