Twentieth-Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction - Hardcover

Cantor, Norman F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082040358X ISBN 13: 9780820403588

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1988

Synopsis

«In Twentieth-Century Culture, Norman Cantor has undertaken the formidable task of explaining, separately, and in their interaction, the major intellectual and cultural movements of our era. To this courageous enterprise Cantor brings extraordinary intelligence, wit, and passion. It will be a rare reader who does not disagree - even disagree vehemently - with some of Cantor's strong opinions, and an even rarer one who does not come away from this book instructed, stimulated, and enlightened.» (Robert W. Hanning, Columbia University)

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Review

«The book is extraordinarily well-organized; it has excellent illustrations that illustrate the text. This book ought to be a pleasure to read and contemplate.» (The American Oxonian)
«Mr. Cantor is to be applauded for his remarkable summations of the components of modernism.» (New York Times)
«This is a most valuable book, indeed the best guide to twentieth-century culture the reviewer has seen.» (Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete)
«Faktenreich und von handlichem Format, didaktisch wohlüberlegt, ist 'Twentieth-Century Culture' nicht zuletzt durch die zahlreichen Einsprüche, die es provoziert, dialogfähig, weit über den von C. im 'Vorwort' anvisierten studentischen Adressatenkreis hinaus.» (Hans-Jochen Sander, Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft)

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082040358X
• ISBN 13: 9780820403588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472