Front Lines of Modernism
Title | Front Lines of Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | M. Larabee |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2011-04-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230118259 |
This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.
Front Lines of Modernism
Title | Front Lines of Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Douglas Larabee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 806 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Landscapes in literature |
ISBN |
Inventing American Modernism
Title | Inventing American Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jill E. Pearlman |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780813926025 |
"In this book Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect changes alone and, further, that the Harvard Graduate School of Design was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. - She offers a crucial missing piece to the story - and to the history of modern architecture - by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school's dean and founder."--BOOK JACKET.
Reconstructing Modernism
Title | Reconstructing Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley Maher |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2020-03-26 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0198816480 |
Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself. While the city has long been a focus of literary modernist studies, architectural modernism has never had its due. Scholars usually characterize architectural modernism as a parallel modernism or even an incompatible modernism to literature. Giving special attention to dystopian classics Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this study argues that sustained attention to modern architecture shaped mid-century authors' political and aesthetic commitments. After many writers deemed modernist architects to be agents for communism and other collectivist movements, they squared themselves--and literary modernist detachment and aesthetic autonomy--against the seemingly tyrannical utopianism of modern architecture; literary aesthetic qualities were reclaimed as political qualities. In this way, Reconstructing Modernism redraws the boundaries of literary modernist studies: rather than simply adding to its canon, it argues that the responsibility for defining literary modernism for the mid-century public was shared by an incredible variety of authors--Edwardians, modernists, satirists, and even anti-modernists.
The Ecology of Modernism
Title | The Ecology of Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Schuster |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2015-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0817358293 |
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination
Title | Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Wyatt Bonikowski |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 131705556X |
Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski shows how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed by the literary imagination. Situating his study with respect to Freud’s concept of the death drive, Bonikowski reads the repetitive symptoms of shell-shocked soldiers as a resistance to representation and narrative. In making this resistance part of their narratives, Ford, West, and Woolf broaden our understanding of the traumatic effects of war, exploring the possibility of a connection between the trauma of war and the trauma of sexuality. Parade’s End, The Return of the Soldier, and Mrs. Dalloway are all structured around the relationship between the soldier who returns from war and the women who receive him, but these novels offer no prospect for the healing effects of the union between men and women. Instead, the novels underscore the divisions within the home and the self, drawing on the traumatic effects of shell shock to explore the link between the public events of history and the intimate traumas of the relations between self and other.
Modernism
Title | Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Vassiliki Kolocotroni |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226450742 |
This anthology provides a guide to the Modernist movement in literature. Covering intellectual concerns of the period 1850-1940, it draws on contemporary essays, reviews, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde.