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Book SynopsisThe term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product...
Trade ReviewAn exemplary study of the idea of 'modernism.'... Eysteinsson moves with remarkable ease from readings and discussions of the definitions and uses of the concept of modernism within literary criticism to the placement of the concept of modernism within literary history and to intelligent and illuminating readings of particular modernist literary text and authors.
* World Literature Today *
Brave and admirable. Eysteinsson's exploration of modernism considers the reverberations and relations of modernism to other paradigms such as realism, literary history, postmodernism, and the avant-garde. His work, which also reveals a strong awareness of how modernism was and is understood outside the Anglo-American realm, is indispensable.
* Virginia Quarterly Review *
