The Nature of Modernism

The Nature of Modernism
Author: Elizabeth Black
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351867113

This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book’s central argument is that within British modernist poetry there is a clear and sustained interest in the natural world which has yet to receive adequate critical attention. Whilst modernist studies continues to emphasize the plurality of the movement and the breadth of voices and concerns within it, the environmental consciousness of modernist literature and its response to changes to human/nature relations following the experience of war and modernity remain largely unexamined. Exploring British modernist poetry from an ecocritical perspective offers a fresh approach to the movement and its context, and produces original readings of both canonical and more marginalized modernist voices. This book opens by discussing the relationship between modernism and ecocriticism and the benefits of creating a dialogue between the two. It then presents new readings of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, and Charlotte Mew that reveal a shared preoccupation with environmental issues and a common desire to find new ways of achieving physical, psychological, and artistic reconnection with nature. Building on the continuing growth of ecocriticism, this book demonstrates how green approaches to modernist studies can produce new insights into both individual poets and the modernist movement as a whole, making it an essential resource for students of modernism, ecocriticism, and early-twentieth-century literature.

Green Modernism

Green Modernism
Author: Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137526041

One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Christopher Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0192804413

A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Modernist Objects

Modernist Objects
Author: Xavier Kalck
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1949979512

Modernist Objects: Literature, Art, Culture is a unique mix of cultural studies, literature, and visual arts applied to the discrete materiality of modernist objects. Contributors explore the many tensions surrounding the modernist relationship to objects, things, products and artefacts through the prism of poetry, prose, visual arts, culture and crafts.

Modern Art And Modernism

Modern Art And Modernism
Author: Francis Frascina
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429978537

Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have not merely been influential in deciding how modern art is to be seen and understood, they have also influenced the course it has taken. The nature of modern art cannot be understood without some analysis of the concept of Modernism itself.Modern Art and Modernism presents a selection of texts by the major contributors to debate on this subject, from Baudelaire and Zola in the nineteenth century to Greenberg and T. J. Clark in our own times. It offers a balanced section of essays by contributors to the mainstream of Modernist criticism, representative examples of writing on the themes of abstraction and expression in modern art, and a number of important contributions to the discussion of aesthetics and the social role of the artist. Several of these are made available in English translation for the first time, and others are brought together from a wide range of periodicals and specialized collections.This book will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students of modern art, art history, and aesthetics, as well as for general readers interested in the place of modern art in culture and history.

Regarding the Popular

Regarding the Popular
Author: Sascha Bru
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110274698

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called “low” culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly “high” modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the “low”. As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.

Exhausted Ecologies

Exhausted Ecologies
Author: Andrew Kalaidjian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108477917

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Modernism and the Anthropocene

Modernism and the Anthropocene
Author: Jon Hegglund
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 149855539X

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.

Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature

Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature
Author: Richard Leppert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520962524

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas—cultural, social, and personal—associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature, particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be no turning back.

Modernisms

Modernisms
Author: Peter Nicholls
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1995-08-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520201033

Introduces the reader to a wealth of literary experiment, beginning in the 19th century.