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Modernism the Lure of Heresy
Author | : Peter Gay |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393052053 |
This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
Institutions of Modernism
Author | : Lawrence S. Rainey |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300070507 |
This account of modernism and its place in public culture looks at where modernism was produced and how it was transmitted to particular audiences. The individual tales of figures like Joyce, Pound, Marinetti and Eliot provide perspectives on the larger story of modernism itself.
Modernist Idealism
Author | : Michael J. Subialka |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487528655 |
Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.
Teaching Modernist Poetry
Author | : N. Marsh |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-01-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230202320 |
This book recognizes that modernist poetry can be both difficult and rewarding to teach. Leading scholars and poets from the UK and the US offer practical, innovative, up to date strategies for teaching the reading and writing of modernist poetry across its long diverse histories, taking in experimentation, performance, hypertext and much more.
American Modernism
Author | : R. Roger Remington |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780300098167 |
Presents an account of a key period in American graphic design as it manifested itself in various media, covering major historical influences and significant works.
Chasing the Perfect
Author | : Natalia Ilyin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Commercial art |
ISBN | : |
By Natalia Ilyin. Foreword by Susan S. Szenasy.
Recovering Your Story
Author | : Arnold Weinstein |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307431673 |
“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House, has spent a lifetime guiding students through the work of great writers, and in a volume that crowns his career, Weinstein invites us to discover ourselves–our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories–in the masterpieces of modernist fiction. Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner: the very names sound intimidating. Yet as Weinstein argues with wit and passion, the works of these authors, and of their contemporary heir Toni Morrison, are in fact shimmering mirrors of our own inner world and most intimate thoughts. Novels such as Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Beloved allow us to explore the inner worlds of human feeling and bring us face-to-face with our own deepest selves and desires. Weinstein decodes these great novels, and he shows how to read them to understand human beings–the way our minds and hearts actually work. This is what Weinstein means by “recovering your story.” Weinstein illuminates the complex pleasures woven into these peerless narratives. Beneath the slow, sensual cadences of Proust he finds an edgy erotic tension as well as a remarkably crisp depiction of the timeless world inside the self. Joyce’s Ulysses, in Weinstein’s brilliantly original reading, is a protean linguistic experiment that forces us to view both our bodies and our minds in a radically new–and hilariously funny–light. His analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse circles back again and again on Woolf’s depiction of the importance of relationships in knowing the self. Faulkner, argues Weinstein, is at once our greatest tragedian and our darkest comedian, a novelist who captures both the agony and absurdity of consciousness in a time of social and moral disintegration. Finally, in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Weinstein explores the legacy of modernism in a contemporary novel, as Morrison brings the body into the literary picture, confronting how the body affects not only our fundamental concept of self, but also consciousness itself. In this magnificent work of literary appreciation and exploration, Weinstein makes the astonishing discovery of the self as a part of the joy of reading great modernist fiction, even as he makes these powerful works understandable, accessible, indeed imperative for all adventurous readers.
Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition
Author | : Clare Cavanagh |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1994-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400821495 |
If modernism marked, as some critics claim, an "apocalypse of cultural community," then Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) must rank among its most representative figures. Born to Central European Jews in Warsaw on the cusp of the modern age, he could claim neither Russian nor European traditions as his birthright. Describing the poetic movement he helped to found, Acmeism, as a "yearning for world culture," he defined the impulse that charges his own poetry and prose. Clare Cavanagh has written a sustained study placing Mandelstam's "remembrance and invention" of a usable poetic past in the context of modernist writing in general, with particular attention to the work of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Cavanagh traces Mandelstam’s creation of tradition from his earliest lyrics to his last verses, written shortly before his arrest and subsequent death in a Stalinist camp. Her work shows how the poet, generalizing from his own dilemmas and disruptions, addressed his epoch’s paradoxical legacy of disinheritance--and how he responded to this unwelcome legacy with one of modernism’s most complex, ambitious, and challenging visions of tradition. Drawing on not only Russian and Western modernist writing and theory, but also modern European Jewish culture, Russian religious thought, postrevolutionary politics, and even silent film, Cavanagh traces Mandelstam’s recovery of a "world culture" vital, vast, and varied enough to satisfy the desires of the quintessential outcast modernist.