Bibliography: Modernism

Selected Texts:

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space (1964).

Bakhtin, Mikhail, The Dialogic Imagination (1981).

Barthes, Roland. S/Z

Benjamin, Walter, “The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in
Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (1968).

Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1941. (1986)

Broe, ed. Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes (1991).

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).

Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity (1987).

Carey, John. The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary
Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 (1992).

Dettmar, Kevin & Stephen Watt (eds.) Marketing Modernism: Self-Promotion, Canonization and Reading (1996).

Eagleton, Terry. After Theory (2003).

Hamner, Robert. Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott.

Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism (1986).

Kenner, Hugh. Joyce’s Voices (1978).

King, Bruce Alvin. Derek Walcott: A Carribean Life (biography) (2001).

Lawrence, Karen. The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses (1981) and De-Colonizing Tradition.

Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf (biography) (1996).

Levenson, Michael. A Geneology of Modernism (1984).

Lukacs, Geog. Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle (chapter on “The
Ideology of Modernism”) (1971).

Marek, Jane E. Women Editing Modernism: Literary Magazines and Literary History
(1995).

Mao, Douglas & Rebecca Walkowitz. Bad Modernisms (2006).

Nelson, Cary & Laurence Grossberg. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (see
Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”) ( 1988).

Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995).

Rainey, Lawrence. Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (1998).

Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative (Essay on Mrs. Dalloway, vol. II) (1984.

Riquelme, J.P. Gothic Modernisms: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity (2008).

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism (1993).

Saussy, Haun. Comp Lit in an Age of Globalization (Yale 2008)

Scott, Bonnie Kime. The Gender of Modernism (1990) and Refiguring Modernism:
Postmodern Feminst Readings of Woolf, West and Barnes (1995).

Walkowitz, Rebecca.Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2007).

Williams, Patrick, ed. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (1994).