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The struggle of the modern.

Author: Stephen Spender
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1963.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Personal reflections about those qualities in literature and art, in the present century, that Mr. Spender regards as modern.
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Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.
Struggle of the modern.
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1963
(OCoLC)574650706
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.

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Personal reflections about those qualities in literature and art, in the present century, that Mr. Spender regards as modern.

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