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This work provides a succinct analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last 100 years. The author explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes which occurred in the novel, poetry and drama, as well as the many revolutions in art, film and aesthetic theory.;The book sets out: to explain the key terminology of the subject; orient the reader in terms of modernisms basic aspects; explore the literary shifts from realism to modernism to postmodernism; analyze the modernist elements in the texts of writers such as Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Yeats, Ford, Eliot, Richardson, Conrad, Beckett, and others; and explain the impetus that Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein gave to experimental writers at the turn of the century.
