A decent read, 25 Nov 2008
While written as an introduction to 'the meaning of life', this book also attempts to entertain with the odd candid remark and a whistle stop tour of great thinkers' views on the matter. Better still, the author ventures his own meaning of life rather than concluding that he has found the One True Answer.

A decent read, 25 Nov 2008
While written as an introduction to 'the meaning of life', this book also attempts to entertain with the odd candid remark and a whistle stop tour of great thinkers' views on the matter. Better still, the author ventures his own meaning of life rather than concluding that he has found the One True Answer.

Good basic starting point, 07 Jan 2006
This is a good starting point for those who know very little of Modernism and need a good basic point. It is ideal for students who are not that are confused by the subject but require basic definitions.
It works a bit like a beginners dictionary to Modernism, providing very general and not very deep definitions or descriptions of many of the great modernist works and writers.
If you just want a brief idea of what Modernism is this is the book for you, but if you are wishing to develop any knowledge of modernism, avoid at all costs.

A decent read, 25 Nov 2008
While written as an introduction to 'the meaning of life', this book also attempts to entertain with the odd candid remark and a whistle stop tour of great thinkers' views on the matter. Better still, the author ventures his own meaning of life rather than concluding that he has found the One True Answer.

Good basic starting point, 07 Jan 2006
This is a good starting point for those who know very little of Modernism and need a good basic point. It is ideal for students who are not that are confused by the subject but require basic definitions.
It works a bit like a beginners dictionary to Modernism, providing very general and not very deep definitions or descriptions of many of the great modernist works and writers.
If you just want a brief idea of what Modernism is this is the book for you, but if you are wishing to develop any knowledge of modernism, avoid at all costs.

nice effort but problems in execution, 10 Nov 1998
While this book deals with some incredibly interesting subject matter, overall it tends to fall flat, partially due to Krauss's outmoded Weltanschauung and belief (although probably unconscious) in transcendental/idealist aesthetics. Although if you like Hal Foster this would be right up your alley.

A decent read, 25 Nov 2008
While written as an introduction to 'the meaning of life', this book also attempts to entertain with the odd candid remark and a whistle stop tour of great thinkers' views on the matter. Better still, the author ventures his own meaning of life rather than concluding that he has found the One True Answer.

Good basic starting point, 07 Jan 2006
This is a good starting point for those who know very little of Modernism and need a good basic point. It is ideal for students who are not that are confused by the subject but require basic definitions.
It works a bit like a beginners dictionary to Modernism, providing very general and not very deep definitions or descriptions of many of the great modernist works and writers.
If you just want a brief idea of what Modernism is this is the book for you, but if you are wishing to develop any knowledge of modernism, avoid at all costs.

nice effort but problems in execution, 10 Nov 1998
While this book deals with some incredibly interesting subject matter, overall it tends to fall flat, partially due to Krauss's outmoded Weltanschauung and belief (although probably unconscious) in transcendental/idealist aesthetics. Although if you like Hal Foster this would be right up your alley.

MULTIFACETED picture of a whole epoch of British heritage, 19 Jul 2008
This is arguably the best-presented collection of Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry in a single book, expertly and masterfully translated by the author. Includes Beowulf, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, The Battle of Maldon, Bede, Caedmon..with lively commentaries, making Anglo-Saxon culture easily accessible to the reader. This is a cherry-picking of the top items of the literature. For those purists and language-lovers like me, it lacks the side-by-side Anglo-Saxon versions of the texts.
Perhaps there will be another Vol 2 which provides this?