Modernism in Settings

Book excerpt: This book is analytical and often critical about the subject it investigates, including literary and cultural aesthetics, social and political literatures, national identity speeches, and the psychoanalytic theory of language. Modernism in Settings attempts to reevaluate some important debates in those fields either from the 19th-20th centuries or otherwise Debates at that at the time often failed to take into consideration their full philosophical, social, theological or political implications. The book is primarily aimed at teachers and researchers interested in issues related to modernism within humanities and cultural studies. It discusses works by writers including James Joyce and Edgar Allan Poe, and philosophers and critics including Julia Kristeva and Wolf Lepenies; and covers issues including feminism, technology, and psychoanalysis.