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Modernism

on BBC Radio 3

1922 was the annus mirabilis of literary modernism - the year in which James Joyce 's Ulysses,
TS Eliot 's The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf's early experimental novel Jacob's Room were all first published. Seventy-six years on, Valentine Cunningham reconsiders the meaning of modernism. He explores the origins of these works after the First World War and talks to writers Martin Amis , Michele Roberts and David Lodge about their legacy and influence. Repeat

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James Joyce
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Ts Eliot
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Valentine Cunningham
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Martin Amis
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Michele Roberts
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David Lodge

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