Research guides: Literary Theory and Criticism: Modernism and Postmodernism

Modernism and Postmodernism

Encyclopedia of Postmodernism.
Edited by Victor E. Taylor and Charles E. Winquist.
London: Routledge, 2001.

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Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New perspectives in eighteenth-century French intellectual history.
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Edited by Daniel Gordon and Malick W. Ghachem.
New York ; Oxfordshire, England: Routledge, 2001.

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Modernism: 1890-1930.
Edited by Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
A good starting point for includes a chronology of opinion, biographical sketches of important figures, statistics, techniques, organizations, glossary, index, and a select bibliography.
Practicing Postmodernism, Reading Modernism.
By Patricia Waugh.
London: Edward Arnold, 1993.
Examines some of the key ideas of these schools and their implications for textual analysis.