%0 Journal Article %T Walter Kalaidjian, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism %A Denise GINFRAY %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2006 %I %X Walter Kalaidjian¡¯s Cambridge Companion to American Modernism reads like a most valuable contribution to the knowledge and understanding of a notion that can apply to a style, a movement, a project, or a whole field of production.This very dense volume of 12 critical essays tries to pinpoint the major features of a period that expands roughly from 1890 to 1939. Its major asset is that it does not restrict analysis to art forms and cultural nationalism; instead, it claims that the contributors... %U http://erea.revues.org/696