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Japan--History: modern (after Meiji 1868). --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa, prewar period (1920s-1945). --- Japan--Foreign politics.

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Offering an account of the politics and history of the 1920's in America, this book points out key distinctions between the governing styles and political philosophies of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. It argues that social and technological change resulted in lines of conflict over poverty, race, religion, and employment rights being redrawn.

Nineteen twenties. --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- United States --- History --- Politics and government

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The Wall Street Crash was an epic failure of the financial system at the start of the 20th Century, but it alone did not cause the Great Depression. This edition of Explaining Modern History looks at the deeper causes of the crisis. Ideal for GCSE and A Level.

Nineteen twenties. --- Economic history --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- United States --- History

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Russian literature --- Littérature russe --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Nineteen twenties --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- European influences --- History and criticism

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High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested. For advocates who helped establish its place in the canon, the works of high modernism mark the culmination of literature as high art, while other critics see them as elitist, inaccessible, patriarchal, imperialist, reactionary. Despite this wide range of judgments, all take for granted that high modernism's main features are aestheticist: formal innovation and detachment from history, society, and politics. This book reconsiders that supposition, arguing that high modernist texts epitomize performativity, that is, that they transcend the quiescence of literary aesthetics and affect the extratextual world. Writers such as Kafka, Woolf, Mann, and Faulkner privilege form not as an end in itself but as a means to empower the sociopolitical function of literature. By exploring the performative role of literary works fromthe 1920s, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituates it within literary history. Joshua Kavaloski is Associate Professor and Director of the German Studies Program at Drew University.

Modernism (Literature) --- Aesthetics in literature. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- 1920s. --- Eliot. --- Gide. --- High modernism. --- Joshua Kavaloski. --- Joyce. --- Kafka. --- Mann. --- Pound. --- Proust. --- Woolf. --- detachment. --- formal innovation. --- literary history. --- literature. --- performativity. --- politics. --- society. --- sociopolitical.