Modernism emerged as a powerful cultural and intellectual movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reshaping art, literature, and, importantly, philosophy .

However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet ...

Much f the influential literature produced during the modernist period, roughly 1900-1950, was considered radical in its time. This course will focus on the experimental, avant-garde impulse that ...

Building on recent interest in the connections between analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness demonstrates that vagueness should be read not as an ...

DH Lawrence was another English modernist writer who was personally influenced by Polishness ... both rich and poor. And in Wyndham Lewis’s literature, Polishness is also associated with liminality: ...

This unit will explore the relationship between modernist literature and cinema from a variety of angles. It will consider: involvement (the ways in which modern writers partook in the business and ...

In recent years, the subject of Soviet modernist architecture has become a topic of enormous international interest in professional circles and for the general public. This growing interest is ...

Alice Wood joined the English department at De Montfort University in 2014. Her research and teaching centre on twentieth-century and contemporary literature with particular focus on British modernism ...