Some of the innovative writers included are Apollinaire, Brecht, Joyce, Kafka, Strindberg and Yeats. The contributors examine the ideas, groupings and social te... » 

Some of the innovative writers included are Apollinaire, Brecht, Joyce, Kafka, Strindberg and Yeats. The contributors examine the ideas, groupings and social tensions out of which modernism emerged. The book also provides biographies of the movement's leading exponents. «