The Modern Movement: A TLS Companion (The TLS Companions Series) - Hardcover

9780226309859: The Modern Movement: A TLS Companion (The TLS Companions Series)

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ISBN 10: 0226309851 ISBN 13: 9780226309859

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1993

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For the past ninety years the Times Literary Supplement has scrutinized, dissected, applauded, and occasionally disparaged the work of the twentieth century's leading writers. It has taken a major role in the making—and breaking—of literary reputations.

In The Modern Movement, John Gross has assembled an entertaining selection of 155 articles and reviews about and by the great figures of literary modernism. The focus is on twelve key modernist writers: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Wolf, W. H. Auden, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Franz Kafka. Another section gathers ten reviews and articles by Eliot and Woolf on then current writers and writing. In addition, there are more general articles on literary trends and issues by such prominent writers and critics as Anthony Burgess, Wallace Stevens, Anthony Powell, and Erich Heller.

This fascinating array reveals early opinions on what have come to be the classics of modernist literature. Readers will be treated to astute and often surprising opinions of their favorite writers on the most important literature of this century.

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About the Author

John Gross, formerly editor of the Times Literary Supplement, is now theater critic for the Sunday Telegraph. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters and The Oxford Book of Essays.

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One of five in a new series entitled "TLS Companions" that anthologize the Times Literary Supplement 's writings, this volume consists of concise reviews--with a few articles, obituaries, and letters thrown in for good measure--pertaining to a dozen modernist writers, eight writing in English and four in other languages (e.g., D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Proust, Mann, and Kafka). Also included are writings on ten additional modernist authors, reviews by T.S Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and a final section dubbed the "TLS Treasury" featuring "curiosities," as the editor puts it (actually letters, essays, and poems). Selections, originally published anonymously but now given bylines, are either unabridged or excerpted (sometimes so severely that they are mere quotations). A good overview of the generally conservative TLS and useful as a source of contemporary reviews.
- Janice Braun, Hoover Institution Lib., Stanford, Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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