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Transatlantic Modernism
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Transatlantic Modernism

Writers, Thought, and the Quest for Truth
By: Robert P. McParland

£64.99

This book explores transatlantic modernism's interactions with philosophy, religion, and art. It considers how authors like Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, and Eliot engaged explorations of literary form, identity, and truth while searching for—or denying—belief.

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This book explores transatlantic modernism and the relationship of modernist authors with the thought of their time and their search for meaning. It is an introduction to the interactions between literary modernism, artistic culture, religion, and philosophy. The novelists studied include Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, Mann, Hemingway, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, and others. The poets include Eliot, Rilke, Stevens, Frost, Williams, and Moore. Literary modernism engaged explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers sought belief or denied it and participated in the intellectual spirit of their time.

Robert McParland is Professor of English and Humanities at Felician University, US. He is the editor of Music and Literary Modernism and Film and Literary Modernism. His books include Cultural Memory, Consciousness and the Modernist Novel; Philosophy and Literary Modernism. Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Other Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture; From Native Son to King’s Men: The Literary Landscape of the 1940s; and Charles Dickens’s American Audience.

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  • ISBN: 1-0364-4674-3
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4674-1
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-12

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  • ISBN: 1-0364-4675-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4675-8
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-12
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