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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. Struggle of the modern. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1963 (OCoLC)574650706 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Spender |
| OCLC Number: | 316309 |
| Description: | 266 p. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. The modern imagination: The romantic imagination -- The organic, the orchidaceous, the intellectualized -- Imagination is personal -- pt. 2. The obsessive situation: Moderns and contemporaries -- The modern as vision of the whole -- The modern necessity -- Poetic moderns and prose contemporaries -- A short history of the pers. pron. 1st sing. nom. -- The world of mechanical metamorphosis -- pt. 3. Non-recognizers, recognizers, and over-recognizers: Non-recognizers -- The recognizers -- Dialogue with a recognizer -- The reversal of the modern: Tradition-bound literature and traditionless painting -- Hatred and nostalgia in death's dream kingdom -- The neo-traditionalists -- The nostalgic fallacy -- Poet-critics and critic-poets -- The modern and the now. |
Abstract:
Personal reflections about those qualities in literature and art, in the present century, that Mr. Spender regards as modern.
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