An engagement with the ongoing significance of modernism is essential for development a nuanced account of the improvement of the radical after 1945. Bringing jointly the world over amazing students of 20th- and twenty-first-century literature, those essays exhibit how the main cutting edge writers operating at the present time draw at the legacies of modernist literature. Dynamics of effect and edition are traced in dialogues among authors from around the 20th century: Lawrence and A. S. Byatt, Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, Forster and Zadie Smith. The e-book units out new serious and disciplinary foundations for rethinking the very phrases we use to map the novel's development and renewal, improving our figuring out not just of what modernism was once but additionally what it might probably nonetheless turn into. With its worldwide achieve, The Legacies of Modernism will entice students operating not just within the new modernist reports, but in addition in postcolonial stories and comparative literature.
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