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Modernism Revisited: Texts and Contexts offers a profound exploration of modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical, and cultural upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
By revisiting key texts, this book provides fresh perspectives on the movement's formal innovations and ideological contradictions. It delves into themes such as fragmented identities, evolving perceptions of time, and challenges to traditional norms in an era marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. Each chapter situates seminal works, including those of T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, within their historical contexts while also showcasing underrepresented voices and transnational contributions. The book critically examines subjects such as gendered narratives, mythological influences, linguistic experimentation, and the interplay between modernism and the cityscape. Featuring insights from international scholars, this work integrates textual analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, encompassing literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. By revisiting modernism's complexities and contradictions, this collection underscores its enduring relevance in contemporary debates on identity, creativity, and cultural change. Perfect for both scholars and students, Modernism Revisited invites readers to reconsider the movement's lasting legacy and its implications for today's intellectual and artistic discourses.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Amitayu Chakraborty (Durgapur Women's College)
1. Realism versus Modernism
Soumaya Bouacida and Ikram Lecheheb (University of 20th August 1955, Skikda, Algeria)
2. “The Unseen Parts that Spread Wide:” Mrs. Dalloway and the Schizo-Rhizome
Andrew Rayment (Chiba University) and Aya Kuroki (Independent Researcher)
3. Uncanny Embodiment and History on the Late Modernist Stage
Huayu Yang (Trinity College Dublin)
4. The Unfinished Resistance of Moving Texts: Resonance and Witness in the Works of Martha Graham and Muriel Rukeyser
Christina-Marie Sears (Washtenaw County Community College)
5. Myth in Modernism: Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, and Pound
Dominic Richard (Peking University HSBC Business School)
6. Occult Modernism: Aesthetic of the Esoteric
Sakti Sekhar Dash (Social Science Research Council)
7. Silence and Empowering: The Gendered Narrative of Modernism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Bowen Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
8. Women, War and the Poetics of Grief
Christa de Brún (South East Technological University)
9. 'How Will You Furnish it?': Domestic labour and Modernist Women's Writing in Inter-War Britain
Amrita Chakraborti (Oxford University Press)
10. Time and 'Music' in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and The Four Quartets
Robert McParland (Felician University)
11. 'Now is the Moment': Writing To Be in The Waves
Emi Wood Scully (University of Tennessee)
12. “This impersonal thing, which I'm dared to do by my friends, the flight of time”: The Temporal Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Oliver Case (Birmingham City University)
13. Letters from Loiterers: Modernism and the City
Arkadeep Mitra (Visva-Bharati University)
14. The Multilingual Waste Land
Anne Garwig (Kent State University)
15. Modernism and the Crisis of Language: An Introduction through Later Joyce
Rishiraj Pal (Rabindra Bharati University)
16. Where and for whom is 'Europe' in the Context of Transnational Modernist Studies?: A Glance at Estonian Writer Leida Kibuvits
Eret Talviste (University of Tartu)
17. Interrogating Modernity and Modernism through Tagore's Poetics
Soumi Mukherjee (Vidyasagar University)
18. The Drifters: The Emergence of the “Modern” Characters in Bengal
Shreya Das (Sanskrit College and University)
Product details
| Published | Jan 22 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781978763784 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 2 b/w/ illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























