Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature.

• Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data
• Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection
• Explores current and ongoing debates on the links between the aesthetics and praxis of authors and modernist theoreticians
• Reveals the profound ways in which modernist authors have influenced key thinkers, and vice versa

Jean-Michel Rabaté, professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) since 1992, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and one of the editors of the Journal of Modern Literature. Co-founder and senior curator of the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, he has authored or edited more than thirty-five volumes on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, and philosophy. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis  (2014), and the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture and Politics (2015).