Rewritten versions of contributions to an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in May 1992. Starting point for the conference was the vagueness of the very terms 'modernism' and 'modernity'. In the first section a group of comparatists address the theoretical and terminological problems of modernism. Practical readings of modernist writers; discussions of different modernist movements; and, the work of critics who have contributed to debates about modernism make up the second section. The third section looks at the problem of modernism from an interartistic and interdisciplinary perspective.

"The Flower Beneath the Foot: Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived" by Ronald Firbank was written as a fairy tale and satire of high society of sorts. In this book, readers follow Laura Lita Carmen Etoile de Nazianzi, a beautiful young woman of the upper class who wishes to find more out of life than the superficial matters of the world she lives in. While on her journey to self-improvement, she becomes a better woman and is, eventually, even declared a "saint."

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Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.