A Genealogy of Modernism
Subtitle: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 19081922 (Cambridge Paperback Library)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 27, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521338004
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Semiotics & Theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Modernism (Literature)
First sentence: In the first lines of the preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus," Conrad defines art as "a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe . . ."