Modernism and literature: an introduction and reader/ Mia Carter and Alan Warren Friedman

Part I. Culture and Aesthetics
1. Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life"

2. Walter Pater, "Conclusion," The Renaissance- Studies in Art and Poetry

3. Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"

4. William James, "The Stream of Consciousness"

5. Arthur Symons, "Introduction," The Symbolist Movement in Literature

6. Isadora Duncan, from The Dance of the Future

7. Wyndham Lewis, et al., from Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex 1

8. Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"

9. Gertrude Stein, "Composition as Explanation"

10. Sergei Eisenstein, "The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram"

11. Elizabeth Bowen, "Why I Go to the Cinema"

12. Louise Bogan, "Folk Art"

13. Bertolt Brecht, "Short Description of a New Technique of Acting Which Produces an Alienation Effect"

Part II. Philosophy and Religion

14. Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Gay Science,Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and "The Antichrist"

15. James George Frazer, from The Golden Bough

16. Ingrid Bergson, from Creative Evolution

17. E.M. Forster, "What I Believe"

18. Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Part III. Medicine, Science, and Technology

19. Charles Darwin, "Struggle for Existence," from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

20. John Tyndall, from Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science

21. George Bernard Shaw, from "Preface on Doctors," The Doctor's Dilemma

22. Albert Einstein, from The Evolution of Physics from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta

23. Werner Heisenberg, from "Non-Objective Science and Uncertainty" Part IV. Politics and War

24. Friedrich Nietzsche, "Aphorism #477," from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

25. J.A. Hobson, "Nationalism and Imperialism," from Imperialism: A Study

26. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, "The Futurist Manifesto"

27. Rosa Luxemburg, "Peace Utopias"

28. James Joyce, "The Shade of Parnell"

29. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, "Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska"

30. Siegfried Sassoon, "Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration"

31. The Kellogg-Briand Pact 32. Kenneth Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle"

33. C.L.R. James ["Native Son"], "My Friends: A Fireside Chat on the War" Part V. Gender and Sexuality

34. Havelock Ellis & John Addington Symonds, "The Theory of Sexual Inversion"

35. Sigmund Freud, "Female Sexuality"

36. Edward Carpenter, "The Intermediate Sex"

37. Emma Goldman, "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation"

38. Margaret Sanger, "The Case for Birth Control"

Part VI. Race and Ethnicity

39. Charles Darwin, "On the Formation of the Races of Man," from The Descent of Man

40. Emile Zola, "J'accuse"

41. Marita Bonner, "On Being Young -- A Woman -- And Colored"

42. Alain Locke, "Introduction," The New Negro

43. Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"

44. Jean Toomer, "Race Problems and Modern Society"

45. Nancy Cunard, from Black Man and White Ladyship: An Anniversary

Part VII. Global Modernisms

46. Jose Marti, "Our America"

47. Ryosuke Akutagawa, "A Fool's Life"

48. Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren), "Literature and Revolution"

49. Mulk Raj Anand, "Muhammad Iqbal"

50. Munshi Premchand (Dhanpat Rai), "The Aim of Literature"

51. "Legitime Defense Manifesto" Readings in Literary Criticism by Modernist Writers Part VIII. Modernist Writers on Themselves

52. Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"

53. Oscar Wilde, "Preface," The Picture of Dorian Gray

54. Joseph Conrad, "Preface." The Nigger of the "Narcissus

55. W.B. Yeats, "The Symbolism of Poetry"

56. Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste"

57. T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

58. Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction"

59. Luigi Pirandello, "Preface," Six Characters in Search of an Author

60. D.H. Lawrence, "Why the Novel Matters" Part IX. Modernist Writers on Their Contemporaries

61. George Bernard Shaw, "The Technical Novelty in Ibsen's Plays"

62. Ezra Pound, "Dubliners and Mr James Joyce"

63. T.S. Eliot, "Ulysses, Order, and Myth"

64. D.H. Lawrence, "Surgery for the Novel -- Or, a Bomb?"

65. Mina Loy, "Modern Poetry" 66. Ford Madox Ford, from Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

67. Virginia Woolf, "How It Strikes a Contemporary," "The Leaning Tower"

68. E.M. Forster, "Virginia Woolf"

69. Louis MacNeice, "The Tower That Once"

70. Ralph Ellison, "Richard Wright's Blues"

71. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), from Tribute to Freud