This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. <br><ul><br><li>A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism <br><li>Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments <br><li>Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism. <br><li>Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject <br><li>Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements <br><li>Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon <br><li>Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.</ul>