A Dictionary of Modernism

This Dictionary is the first to gather, delineate and make accessible the literary, artistic, critical, cultural and political practices that we associate with Modernism. It provides a wide ranging resource both to the canon of 'High Modernism' and to current theoretical perspectives that have contributed to the renewed interest in Modernism and have lent it renewed range and critical rigour in the early twenty-first century. A team of current experts in the field provide clear and fully contextualised definitions of key terms, concepts, texts, movements, practitioners, as well as influential critical views and legacies. The entries cover Anglophone Modernism as well as giving full attention to significant figures, ideas and movements in European, North and South American culture and to influences from non-Western cultures. The Dictionary can be used either as a companion to the editors' successfulModernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents or as a stand alone reference work and provides both new researchers and experienced scholars with a thorough and up-to-date guide to this vibrant field.

Vassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Arts and Humanities Graduate School at the University of Glasgow. She is co-editor ofModernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998).

Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama at the University of Edinburgh. She is author ofThe Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (Routledge, 1998) and ofTragedy, Modernity and Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and co-editor ofModernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) and ofPost-War Cinema and Modernism: A Film Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 2000).