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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Scholes |
ISBN: | 0300108206 9780300108200 |
OCLC Number: | 60543415 |
Description: | xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | High and low in Modernist criticism -- Old and new in Modernist art -- Poetry and rhetoric in the Modernist montage -- Hard and soft : Joyce and others -- Durable fluff : the importance of not being earnest -- Iridescent mediocrity : Dornford Yates and others -- Formulaic creativity : Simenon's Maigret novels -- Model artists in Paris : Hastings, Hammett, and Kiki -- The aesthete in the brothel : Proust and others. |
Responsibility: | Robert Scholes. |
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Abstract:
Provides a discussion about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions, this book contends that these distinctions are in fact confused and misleading, an apparent clarity that covers real confusion.
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"Paradoxy of Modernism develops a powerful and persuasive new understanding of paradox and pleasure in modernist art and literature; it is a must-read for modernists."-James Phelan, editor of Narrative and author of Living to Tell About It -- James Phelan Read more...
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