Troubling Late Modernism

Author : Doug Battersby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019267806X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubling Late Modernism written by Doug Battersby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernist writers developed new techniques for depicting characters' thoughts, feelings, and desires that revolutionized the novel form—a revolution novelists and critics are still reckoning with today. Troubling Late Modernism tracks how those techniques have been perversely reinvented by some of the most influential and innovative writers of the postwar period. Chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, John Banville, J. M. Coetzee, and Eimear McBride reveal how these writers at once exploit and extend modernist forms of narration to cultivate disquieting affective attachments to protagonists compelled by violent or exploitative sexual desires. By interrogating the expressive power and ethical liabilities of modes of writing that give us intimate access to characters' inner lives, late modernism poses fundamental philosophical questions about emotion and its inseparability from knowledge and ethical deliberation. Whilst other historians of the novel have characterized late modernism's formal innovations as ethically and politically edifying, Troubling Late Modernism highlights their more disquieting potential for lending sympathy and profundity to sentiments deemed inadmissible in our everyday lives. Charting late modernism's characteristic fusion of aesthetic difficulty with emotional and ethical provocation demands an approach attuned to the experience of reading these disturbingly erotic narratives. In dialogue with recent debates about critical method, Troubling Late Modernism presents a new way of closely reading prose fiction that brings together the lessons of formalism and affect theory.

Author : Tyrus Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520921993
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Modernism written by Tyrus Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years. In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, new technological media and the social forces of mass politics opened fault lines in individual and collective experience, undermining the cultural bases of the modernist movement. He shows how late modernists attempted to discover ways of occupying this new and often dangerous cultural space. In doing so they laid bare the ruin of the modernist aesthetic at the same time as they transcended its limits. In his wide-ranging theoretical and historical discussion, Miller relates developments in literary culture to tendencies in the visual arts, cultural and political criticism, mass culture, and social history. He excavates Wyndham Lewis's hidden borrowings from Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer; situates Djuna Barnes between the imagery of haute couture and the intellectualism of Duchamp; uncovers Beckett's affinities with Giacometti's surrealist sculptures and the Bolshevik clowns Bim-Bom; and considers Mina Loy as both visionary writer and designer of decorative lampshades. Miller's lively and engaging readings of culture in this turbulent period reveal its surprising anticipation of our own postmodernity.

Author : Ruth Hoberman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931363
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Trouble written by Ruth Hoberman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1901, the public museum was firmly established as an important national institution in British life. Its very centrality led to its involvement in a wide range of debates about art, knowledge, national identity, and individual agency. Ruth Hoberman argues that these debates concerned writers as well. Museum Trouble focuses on fiction written between 1890 and 1914 and the ways in which it engaged the issues dramatized by and within the museum. Those issues were many. Art critics argued about what kind of art to buy on behalf of the nation, how to display it, and whether salaried professionals or aristocratic amateurs should be in charge. Museum administrators argued about the best way to exhibit scientific and cultural artifacts to educate the masses while serving the needs of researchers. And novelists had their own concerns about an increasingly commercialized literary marketplace, the nature of aesthetic response, the impact of evolution and scientific materialism, and the relation of the individual to Britain’s national and imperial identity. In placing the many crucial museum scenes of Edwardian fiction in the context of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century cultural discourse, Museum Trouble shows how this turn-of-the-century literature anticipated many of the concerns of the modernist writers who followed.

Author : Thomas S. Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537883
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extinct Scene written by Thomas S. Davis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire and seismic shifts in the global political order. Davis follows the rise of documentary film culture and the British Documentary Film Movement, especially the work of John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings, and Basil Wright. He then considers the influence of late modernist periodical culture on social attitudes and customs, and presents original analyses of novels by Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Colin MacInnes; the interwar travel narratives of W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell; the wartime gothic fiction of Elizabeth Bowen; the poetry of H. D.; the sketches of Henry Moore; and the postimperial Anglophone Caribbean works of Vic Reid, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming. By considering this group of writers and artists, Davis recasts late modernism as an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life, these figures could better project large-scale geopolitical events and crises.

Author : Anne Fitzpatrick
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 9781583413487
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Modernism written by Anne Fitzpatrick and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs introduce twentieth-century American art.

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English: the composite sentence written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English: the elements of the sentence written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dirk Van Hulle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110707519X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett written by Dirk Van Hulle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.