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Welcome to the Modernism Lab Wiki, a home for brief interpretive essays on literary works, authors and movements of the modernist period designed to complement Modernism Lab's research platform, YNote.

Articles by Year

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Articles by Author

Joseph Conrad
Katherine Mansfield
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Sean O'Casey
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Ford Madox Ford Marcel Proust
E.M. Forster
Dorothy Richardson
Robert Frost
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Hardy
May Sinclair
Aldous Huxley
Lytton Strachey
Henry James
H.G. Wells
James Joyce
Rebecca West
Franz Kafka
Oscar Wilde
D.H. Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
Wyndham Lewis
William Butler Yeats

Other Modernist Figures


Contributors

Anne Aufhauser Kevin Godshall
Emily Petermann
Sam Alexander Elyse Graham Annie Pfeifer
Michaela Bronstein Monika Grzesiak
Natalie Prizel
Emily Cersonsky Len Gutkin Elizabeth Pugh
Michael Chan Robert Higney Brad Rathe
Samuel Cross Steven Hobbs Heather Rhoda
Merrick Doll Lauren Holmes Meaghan Rubsam
Anthony Domestico Andrew Karas Glyn Salton-Cox
Kirsty Dootson Eike Kronshage Jesse Schotter
Merve Emre
Erik Larsen Michael Shapiro
Nathan Ernst Pericles Lewis Carolyn Sinsky
Colleen Fleshman Kenneth Ligda Jack Skeffington
Elizabeth Freund James Ross Macdonald Aaron Steiner
Joshua Gang Laura B. Marcus Aleksandar Stevic
Edgar Garcia
Anne-Marie McManus Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Andrew Gates Alexandria Miller Jessica Technow
Stephen Gilb
Hayley Mohr Christina Walter
Ruth Gilligan Mariel Osetinsky Matthew Wilsey

















Getting Started


Featured Article

                                               Featured Article: Virginia Woolf's The Years

                                                                 by Robert Higney


Published in 1937, The Years was the last of Virginia Woolf’s novels to appear in print during her lifetime. Over the previous six years, Woolf had undertaken a massive project combining fiction and social critique that eventually produced both The Years and the polemical essays of Three Guineas. (While not the single volume tour de force that Woolf first envisioned, she would later write that the two works really constituted “one book.”) The Years consists of two long sections entitled “1880” and “Present Day” (approx. 80 and 120 pages, respectively) that bookend nine shorter sections, each headed only by a year: 1891, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, and 1918. Sections open and are occasionally interrupted by passages of what could be termed panoramic narration that describes seasons, weather, celestial bodies, and the day to day movements of people and things before the its scope tightens to inhabit the consciousness of particular characters. Each section covers a single day with the exception of the first, which includes events on at least three days.


The Years defies plot summary and includes nothing that could be termed a continuous storyline or a central protagonist. Nor is there much of the charged, poetic language that works in many of Woolf’s novels to evoke memory and the processes of perception--indeed, among the novel’s distinguishing features is its curious flatness of affect or tone. Woolf presents a large cast of characters whose ordinary activities and thoughts we follow on seemingly random days over a span of fifty-odd years. (more...).

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