Modernist texts Modernist texts A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist between 1914- 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It is the story of the growth and education of Stephen Dedalus, an alter ego for Joyce named after the Grecian mythological craftsman Daedalus. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Bliss is a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield, first published in 1920. The story is told through the eyes of Bertha, its main character, a very limited third person narrator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bliss (short story)"
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce, published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a frank and satirical depiction of the Irish lower middle classes living in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. Joyce, who would later be acknowledged as the pioneer of stream of consciousness writing, here uses a more superficially realist style to give a crisp, yet intriguing description of characters. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. These stories seem to depict the conflicts these influences generate in the lives of the townsfolk of Dublin, often quite unflatteringly. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. ** The initial stories in the collection focus on children as protagonists, and as the stories continue they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. They also grow correspondingly more sophisticated and subtle in effect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dubliners"
Finnegans Wake, published in 1939, is James Joyce's final novel. Following the publication of Ulysses in 1922, Joyce began working on the "Wake" and by 1924 installments of what was then known as Work in Progress began to appear. (The final title of the work remained a secret between the writer and his wife, Nora Barnacle.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Finnegans Wake"
Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943 (ISBN 0156332256). They had been published individually from 1935 to 1942. Their titles are Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding. ...more on Wikipedia about "Four Quartets"
* Abd al Melik - The first Caliph to strike Islamic coinage - Canto XCVII ...more on Wikipedia about "List of cultural references in The Cantos"
Murder in the Cathedral is a drama in verse by T. S. Eliot, first performed in 1935. Eliot's own Anglo-Catholic beliefs strongly motivate his writing. The action takes place during the few days leading up to the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, whose internal struggle is the main thrust of the play. Having come into conflict with secular authority, Archbishop Becket is visited by a succession of tempters, who variously urge him to avoid or to seek martyrdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Murder in the Cathedral"
The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards. It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Strong claims have been made for it as one of the most significant works of modernist poetry of the twentieth century. As in Pound's prose writing, the themes of economics, governance, and culture are integral to its content. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Cantos"
The Journey of the Magi is a topos of Christian painting and literature. It refers to the journey of three wise men mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Journey of the Magi"
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Composed February 1910 - July 1911) is the main poem in the book Prufrock and Other Observations published by T. S. Eliot in 1917, which marked the start of his career as a writer. It is still one of the dozen most famous 20th century poems in English. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
The Sound and the Fury is a well-known novel written by American author William Faulkner. Published in 1929, it was his fourth novel. The novel first received commercial success in 1931 when Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, a sensationalist story which Faulkner later admitted was written only for money, drew widespread attention to the author. Curiously, the book did sell well when Oprah Winfrey selected it for her book club in the summer of 2005, four decades after Faulkner's death. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Sound and the Fury"
The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures—the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruelest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line). ...more on Wikipedia about "The Waste Land"
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