Modernism in English Literature a Reader

This book is particularly written for the students who attend the department of English language and literature and study modernist English literature, especially modernist English fiction, in Turkey as well as in the non English speaking countries. During the first years of my teaching modernist English literature and modern English fiction, there were not many available reference sources and critical writings which would have helped my students understand properly what the causes were behind the emergence of literary modernism, what literary modernism was, what were the characteristics of modernist fiction and how modernist fiction differed greatly from the fiction of the previous centuries. In Turkey, I observed that the situation even became worse in the areas far away from the big cities due to the shortage of library facilities and critical writings, particularly on English literature, while there were teaching and learning materials for language teaching at universities.