Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature

Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature
Author: Simon Cooper
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-12-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030351955

This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests (such as dance marathons and bingo). Relating close readings to social and economic contexts over the period 1856–1952, it centers in on a key author or text in each chapter, providing an unfolding, chronological narrative, while at the same time offering nuanced updates on existing debates. Part One focuses on the roots of the 1930s proletarian movement in poetry and music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part Two analyzes the output of proletarian novelists, considered alongside contemporaneous works by established modernist authors as well as more mainstream, popular titles.

Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
Author: Nick Hubble
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-08-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474415830

This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.

The Concept of Modernism

The Concept of Modernism
Author: Astradur Eysteinsson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501721305

The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of critical practices relating to nontraditional literature. Intervening in these practices, and correlating them with modernist works and with modern literary theory, Eysteinsson undertakes a comprehensive reexamination of the idea of modernism. Eysteinsson critically explores various manifestations of modernism in a rich array of American, British, and European literature, criticism, and theory. He first examines many modernist paradigms, detecting in them a conflict between modernism's culturally subversive potential and its relatively conservative status as a formalist project. He then considers these paradigms as interpretations-and fabrications-of literary history. Seen in this light, modernism both signals a historical change on the literary scene and implies the context of that change. Laden with the implications of tradition and modernity, modernism fills its major function: that of highlighting and defining the complex relations between history and postrealist literature. Eysteinsson focuses on the ways in which the concept of modernism directs our understanding of literature and literary history and influences our judgment of experimental and postrealist works in literature and art. He discusses in detail the relation of modernism to the key concepts postmodernism, the avant-garde, and realism. Enacting a crisis of subject and reference, modernism is not so much a form of discourse, he asserts, as its interruption-a possible "other" modernity that reveals critical aspects of our social and linguistic experience in Western culture. Comparatists, literary theorists, cultural historians, and others interested in twentieth-century literature and art will profit from this provocative book.

The Turn of the Century

The Turn of the Century
Author: Christian Berg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1995
Genre: Modernism (Art)
ISBN: 9783110140187

Rewritten versions of contributions to an international conference held at the University of Antwerp in May 1992. Starting point for the conference was the vagueness of the very terms 'modernism' and 'modernity'. In the first section a group of comparatists address the theoretical and terminological problems of modernism. Practical readings of modernist writers; discussions of different modernist movements; and, the work of critics who have contributed to debates about modernism make up the second section. The third section looks at the problem of modernism from an interartistic and interdisciplinary perspective.

Modernism and Revolution

Modernism and Revolution
Author: Victor Erlich
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780674580701

Now that the political rhetoric can end, Erlich (Russian literature, Yale U.) examines the impact of the 1917 revolution on Russian poetry, criticism, and artistic prose. He looks at the flirtations with modernism of the early 20th century and compares the futurists, formalists, novelists, and short-story writers of the first decade of the new social and political order. Assumes no knowledge of Russian. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Modernism from Right to Left

Modernism from Right to Left
Author: Alan Filreis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1994-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521453844

A study of relations between American radicalism and modernism in the 1930s, focusing on Wallace Stevens.

Modernism and the Marketplace

Modernism and the Marketplace
Author: Alissa G. Karl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136094741

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism
Author: Martin Travers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826439608

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism is an anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of recent European literature. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school of movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism though to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism. These texts are approached both on their own terms as individual formulations of the goals and procedures (literary, aesthetic and political) that characterized the work of these writers, and as key documents of the literary school or movement to which these writers belonged.