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Part I. Culture and Aesthetics<br/>1. Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" <br/><br/>2. Walter Pater, "Conclusion," The Renaissance- Studies in Art and Poetry <br/><br/>3. Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying" <br/><br/>4. William James, "The Stream of Consciousness" <br/><br/>5. Arthur Symons, "Introduction," The Symbolist Movement in Literature <br/><br/>6. Isadora Duncan, from The Dance of the Future <br/><br/>7. Wyndham Lewis, et al., from Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex 1 <br/><br/>8. Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" <br/><br/>9. Gertrude Stein, "Composition as Explanation" <br/><br/>10. Sergei Eisenstein, "The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram" <br/><br/>11. Elizabeth Bowen, "Why I Go to the Cinema" <br/><br/>12. Louise Bogan, "Folk Art" <br/><br/>13. Bertolt Brecht, "Short Description of a New Technique of Acting Which Produces an Alienation Effect" <br/><br/>Part II. Philosophy and Religion <br/><br/>14. Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Gay Science,Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and "The Antichrist" <br/><br/>15. James George Frazer, from The Golden Bough<br/><br/>16. Ingrid Bergson, from Creative Evolution <br/><br/>17. E.M. Forster, "What I Believe" <br/><br/>18. Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Part III. Medicine, Science, and Technology <br/><br/>19. Charles Darwin, "Struggle for Existence," from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection <br/><br/>20. John Tyndall, from Essays on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in Science <br/><br/>21. George Bernard Shaw, from "Preface on Doctors," The Doctor's Dilemma <br/><br/>22. Albert Einstein, from The Evolution of Physics from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta<br/><br/>23. Werner Heisenberg, from "Non-Objective Science and Uncertainty" Part IV. Politics and War<br/><br/>24. Friedrich Nietzsche, "Aphorism #477," from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits <br/><br/>25. J.A. Hobson, "Nationalism and Imperialism," from Imperialism: A Study<br/><br/>26. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, "The Futurist Manifesto" <br/><br/>27. Rosa Luxemburg, "Peace Utopias"<br/><br/> 28. James Joyce, "The Shade of Parnell" <br/><br/>29. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, "Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska" <br/><br/>30. Siegfried Sassoon, "Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration" <br/><br/>31. The Kellogg-Briand Pact 32. Kenneth Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle" <br/><br/>33. C.L.R. James ["Native Son"], "My Friends: A Fireside Chat on the War" Part V. Gender and Sexuality<br/><br/>34. Havelock Ellis & John Addington Symonds, "The Theory of Sexual Inversion" <br/><br/>35. Sigmund Freud, "Female Sexuality" <br/><br/>36. Edward Carpenter, "The Intermediate Sex" <br/><br/>37. Emma Goldman, "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation" <br/><br/>38. Margaret Sanger, "The Case for Birth Control"<br/><br/> Part VI. Race and Ethnicity <br/><br/>39. Charles Darwin, "On the Formation of the Races of Man," from The Descent of Man <br/><br/>40. Emile Zola, "J'accuse"<br/><br/>41. Marita Bonner, "On Being Young -- A Woman -- And Colored"<br/><br/>42. Alain Locke, "Introduction," The New Negro <br/><br/>43. Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" <br/><br/>44. Jean Toomer, "Race Problems and Modern Society" <br/><br/>45. Nancy Cunard, from Black Man and White Ladyship: An Anniversary <br/><br/>Part VII. Global Modernisms <br/><br/>46. Jose Marti, "Our America" <br/><br/>47. Ryosuke Akutagawa, "A Fool's Life" <br/><br/>48. Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren), "Literature and Revolution" <br/><br/>49. Mulk Raj Anand, "Muhammad Iqbal"<br/><br/>50. Munshi Premchand (Dhanpat Rai), "The Aim of Literature" <br/><br/>51. "Legitime Defense Manifesto" Readings in Literary Criticism by Modernist Writers Part VIII. Modernist Writers on Themselves <br/><br/>52. Henry James, "The Art of Fiction" <br/><br/>53. Oscar Wilde, "Preface," The Picture of Dorian Gray <br/><br/>54. Joseph Conrad, "Preface." The Nigger of the "Narcissus <br/><br/>55. W.B. Yeats, "The Symbolism of Poetry" <br/><br/>56. Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" <br/><br/>57. T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" <br/><br/>58. Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction" <br/><br/>59. Luigi Pirandello, "Preface," Six Characters in Search of an Author<br/><br/>60. D.H. Lawrence, "Why the Novel Matters" Part IX. Modernist Writers on Their Contemporaries<br/><br/>61. George Bernard Shaw, "The Technical Novelty in Ibsen's Plays" <br/><br/>62. Ezra Pound, "Dubliners and Mr James Joyce" <br/><br/>63. T.S. Eliot, "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" <br/><br/>64. D.H. Lawrence, "Surgery for the Novel -- Or, a Bomb?" <br/><br/>65. Mina Loy, "Modern Poetry" 66. Ford Madox Ford, from Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance<br/><br/>67. Virginia Woolf, "How It Strikes a Contemporary," "The Leaning Tower" <br/><br/>68. E.M. Forster, "Virginia Woolf" <br/><br/>69. Louis MacNeice, "The Tower That Once" <br/><br/>70. Ralph Ellison, "Richard Wright's Blues" <br/><br/>71. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), from Tribute to Freud |
