Red Modernism

Author : Mark Steven
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142357X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Modernism written by Mark Steven and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did modernist poetry respond—both thematically and technically—to communism? In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned—and aesthetically responsive—to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem. Focusing on three of the most significant figures in modernist poetry—Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky—Steven provides a theoretical and historical introduction to modernism’s unique sense of communism while revealing how communist ideals and references were deeply embedded in modernist poetry. Moving between these poets and the work of T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and many others, the book combines a detailed analysis of technical devices and poetic values with a rich political and economic context. Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

Author : Mark Steven
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423588
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Modernism written by Mark Steven and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did modernist poetry respond—both thematically and technically—to communism? In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned—and aesthetically responsive—to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem. Focusing on three of the most significant figures in modernist poetry—Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky—Steven provides a theoretical and historical introduction to modernism’s unique sense of communism while revealing how communist ideals and references were deeply embedded in modernist poetry. Moving between these poets and the work of T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and many others, the book combines a detailed analysis of technical devices and poetic values with a rich political and economic context. Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

Author : Owen Hatherley
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780997353
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Militant Modernism written by Owen Hatherley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture — and pursues the notion of an evolved modernism that simply refuses to stop being necessary. Owen Hatherley gives us new ways to look at what we thought was familiar — Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, even Vladimir Mayakovsky. Through Hatherley's eyes we see all of the quotidian modernists of the 20th century - lesser lights, too — perhaps understanding them for the first time. Whether we are looking at Britain's brutalist aesthetics, Russian Constructivism, or the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich, the message is clear. There is no alternative to Modernism.

Author : Charles H. Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Theology in the Far East written by Charles H. Coates and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Evan Kindley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674981634
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture written by Evan Kindley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1929 crash, Anglo-American poet-critics grappled with the task of legitimizing literature for public funding and consumption. Modernism, Evan Kindley shows, created a new form of labor for writers to perform and gave them unprecedented say over the administration of culture, with consequences for poetry’s role in society still felt today.

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393052053
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism the Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

Author : Christopher Bush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199889457
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideographic Modernism written by Christopher Bush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "the Orient" lived on in modernist-era responses to media. The book also makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism.

Author : Louise Hardiman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783743417
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art written by Louise Hardiman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations at the dawn of the twentieth century, their relationship with ‘the spiritual’ – broadly defined – was inextricably linked to their roles as pioneers of modernism. This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ten chapters from emerging and established voices offer new perspectives on Kandinsky and other familiar names, such as Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and introduce less well-known figures, such as the Georgian artists Ucha Japaridze and Lado Gudiashvili, and the craftswoman and art promoter Aleksandra Pogosskaia. Prefaced by a lively and informative introduction by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow that sets these perspectives in their historical and critical context, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives enriches our understanding of the modernist period and breaks new ground in its re-examination of the role of religion and spirituality in the visual arts in late Imperial Russia. Of interest to historians and enthusiasts of Russian art, culture, and religion, and those of international modernism and the avant-garde, it offers innovative readings of a history only partially explored, revealing uncharted corners and challenging long-held assumptions.

Author : Timothy Wientzen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421440873
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automatic written by Timothy Wientzen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reconstructing a vast archive of writing about reflex behaviors, this book demonstrates the ways in which a "politics of reflex" came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era"--

Author : Robert Kiely
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674580657
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism Reconsidered written by Robert Kiely and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: