num_pages: 974
description: This comprehensive anthology, edited by the acclaimed scholars of modernism, Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, is arranged thematically with essential readings from the Western European tradition symbolism, realism, nature, cultural history, the unconscious, myth, self-consciousness, existence, and faith. Readings include examples from Romanticism, the aesthetic movement of the late 19th century, the art theories of cubism, dadaism and futurism, and the philosophical queries of existentialism. Writers represented span the 19th and early 20th centuries and include Wilde, Rilke, Picasso, Baudelaire, Yeats, Nietzsche, Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Marx and Sartre.
language: English
title: The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature
titlecomplete: The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature
genres: 20th Century, Literature
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Oxford University Press