Cambridge Scholars Publishing Philosophy and Literary Modernism

Product Description Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams, and Woolf, among others. Literary modernism engaged with explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. About the Author Robert McParland is Professor of English at Felician University, USA. He is the editor of Music and Literary Modernism and Film and Literary Modernism. His books include Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Other Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture, From Native Son to King’s Men: The Literary Landscape of the 1940s, and Charles Dickens’s American Audience.