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Modernism: A Cultural History Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Armstrong, Tim
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Details
- Title Modernism: A Cultural History
- Author Armstrong, Tim
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity, Cambridge
- Date 2005-06-17
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0745629830
- ISBN 9780745629834 / 0745629830
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 0.58 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 1.47 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Culture, Modernism (Literature)
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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From the rear cover
Modernism: A Cultural History explores modernism's struggle with a split temporality in which the old and the emerging new struggle, and in which, with the horror of the Great War, notions of a traumatic or 'frozen' time emerge. It considers such topics as modernism, market culture and obscurity; the culture of science and technology; politics, economics, eugenics, and sexology; primitivism and race; cinema and sound recording; gender and modernism; and the study of consciousness and the senses. It portrays modernism less as a movement in revolt from the modern world than as attempting to engage with that world: the cry of 'reform!' which characterizes much of post-enlightenment thought is used to describe modernist writers' engagement with politics or bodies as well as with inherited style. In this wide-ranging study, a parade of writers - from the canonical like Pound, Eliot and Woolf to less well-known figures like Mary Butts, Muriel Rukeyser and Sterling Brown - are considered, and literary movements like Imagism, Surrealism and the Harlem Renaissance are drawn into the debate.
Students and scholars alike, of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature, will find the breadth, clarity and fresh approach of this text invaluable.
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2006, Page 91