Category: Modernism

By C. Culleton

ISBN-10: 0312235534

ISBN-13: 9780312235536

ISBN-10: 1403973490

ISBN-13: 9781403973498

FBI leader J. Edgar Hoover was once enthusiastic about literary modernism. And not anyone represented that burgeoning move greater than James Joyce. in the end, Joyce's contributions to trendy literature are unprecedented, and he's greatly considered as having penned the best novel of the 20th century. yet Hoover's fixation on Joyce used to be of a special variety altogether, one fueled by way of excessive paranoia and worry. Joyce and the G-Men is the tale of Hoover's research of James Joyce and all that Joyce represented to vacuum as a infamous glossy author and cultural icon. Hoover's notorious preoccupation with political radicalism, specially communism, affected writers, intellectuals, activists, and artists not just in the US, yet in different countries. Culleton information how Hoover controlled to regulate literary modernism at a time while the move was once spreading speedy within the fingers of a tender, brilliant choice of overseas writers, editors, and publishers. Culleton exhibits how Hoover, for greater than fifty years, manipulated the connection among kingdom strength and sleek literature in the course of his tenure within the Bureau. eventually, Joyce and the G-Men strains Hoover's occupation and divulges his doggedly chronic intervention into the most vital serious pursuits of his time, literary modernism.

By Eugene W. Holland

ISBN-10: 0511519532

ISBN-13: 9780511519536

ISBN-10: 0521031346

ISBN-13: 9780521031349

ISBN-10: 0521419808

ISBN-13: 9780521419802

This is often the 1st e-book to use the foundations of schizoanalysis to literary historical past and cultural reviews. through resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework presents a brand new and illuminating method of Baudelaire's poetry and artwork feedback. Professor Holland demonstrates the effect of army authoritarianism and the capitalist marketplace (as good as Baudelaire's much-discussed kin situations) at the psychology and poetics of the author, who deserted his romantic idealism in want of a modernist cynicism that has characterised smooth tradition ever considering that.

By Robert Cumming

ISBN-10: 1405310545

ISBN-13: 9781405310543

Every one bankruptcy of this compact publication on paintings is color-coded. The chapters include:

Materials and Means
Early paintings (2000 BCE-1300 CE)
Gothic and Early Renaissance (1300-1500)
High Renaissance & Mannerism (1500-1600)
The Baroque period (1600-1700)
From Rococo to Neoclassicism (1700-1800)
Romantic and educational artwork (1800-1900)
Modernism (1900-1970)
Contemporary artwork (1970-Present)

Key symbols are used all through to point start and dying dates, nationality, nations have been the artist used to be lively, critical media during which the artist labored, the place to determine major collections of an artist's paintings and checklist costs completed at auctions.

Some of the gorgeous pages during this publication comprise Claude Monet's Waterlily Pond. brief descriptions of every artist is given after which you are able to do extra examine if an artist captures your realization. probably you've consistently been intrigued via the convex reflect in the back of the Arnolfini Portrait through Jan van Eyck. the following we discover Latin textual content at the wall, a bride in eco-friendly and a stunningly specific chandelier, shimmering with steel luster. Isabella and the Pot of Basil by way of William Holman Hunt is both incredible and the portray is full of symbols which are enjoyable to unveil.

The "Forked wooded area Path," a sort of deploy paintings has appealing lights results sparkling via a woodland of common wooden. the inner of Abbey Church in Ottobeuren, Bavaria is stunning!

While taking a look at The delivery of Venus via William-Adophe Bouguereau. This e-book won't purely motivate you to go to artwork museums extra often, it teaches you approximately the right way to examine work in a deeper means. it's also possible to suppose encouraged to head discover a museum-quality copy, just like the Kiss via Auguste Rodin.

By Rebecca Beasley

ISBN-10: 0203934210

ISBN-13: 9780203934210

Modernist poetry heralded a thorough new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse types and topics, and altering the very inspiration of what it intended to be a poet. This quantity examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, 3 of the main influential figures of the modernist circulation, and argues that we won't dissociate their daring, creative poetic varieties from their profoundly engaged theories of social and political reform.

Tracing the advanced theoretical foundations of modernist poetics, Rebecca Beasley examines:
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the aesthetic modes and theories that shaped a context for modernism

the impact of up to date philosophical movements

the modernist critique of democracy

the significance of the 1st international War

modernism’s programmes for social reform.

This quantity deals worthwhile perception into the modernist circulation, in addition to demonstrating the deep effect of the 3 poets at the form and values of the self-discipline of English Literature itself. Theorists of Modernist Poetry is suitable not just to scholars of modernism, yet to all people with an curiosity in why we research, train, learn and assessment literature the way in which we do.

By Jeremy Braddock

ISBN-10: 1421403641

ISBN-13: 9781421403649

ISBN-10: 1421406640

ISBN-13: 9781421406640

In this hugely unique learn, Jeremy Braddock specializes in collective varieties of modernist expression―the artwork assortment, the anthology, and the archive―and their value within the improvement of institutional and creative tradition within the United States.

Using vast archival study, Braddock's research synthetically examines the neglected practices of significant American artwork creditors and literary editors: Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, Duncan Phillips, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Katherine Dreier, and Carl Van Vechten. He unearths the way in which collections have been devised as either types for modernism's destiny institutionalization and culturally effective gadgets and aesthetic varieties in themselves. instead of anchoring his learn within the regularly occurring figures of the person poet, artist, and paintings, Braddock offers us a wholly new account of ways modernism was once made, one established at the determine of the collector and the perform of collecting.

Collecting as Modernist Practice demonstrates that modernism's cultural id was once secured no longer quite a bit during the choice of a canon of important works as through the improvement of latest practices that formed the social which means of artwork. Braddock has us revisit the contested terrain of modernist tradition sooner than the dominance of associations corresponding to the Museum of recent artwork and the collage curriculum in order that we would reflect on modernisms that may were. delivering the main systematic evaluate to this point of the Barnes starting place, an highbrow family tree and research of The New Negro anthology, and reviews of quite a lot of hitherto neglected anthologies and records, Braddock convincingly exhibits how creative and literary collections helped outline the modernist circulation within the United States.

By James Fisher

ISBN-10: 0786447176

ISBN-13: 9780786447176

In a speedily altering international, the ways that financial forces impact either own and international swap might be tricky to trace, fairly within the arts. This number of twenty new essays explores either imprecise and well-known performs facing monetary concerns. starting with the economic Revolution, the textual content strikes from Marx's theories to Wall road hypothesis, 19th century immigration concerns, the excesses of the Gilded Age and the Twenties, the good melancholy, global conflict II and millennial financial demanding situations.

By Davis, Alex; Jenkins, Lee Margaret

ISBN-10: 1107038677

ISBN-13: 9781107038677

ISBN-10: 5720158219

ISBN-13: 9785720158217

A background of Modernist Poetry examines cutting edge anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war interval. the 1st of its 3 elements considers formal and contextual concerns, together with delusion, politics, gender, and race, whereas the second one and 3rd elements speak about quite a lot of person poets, together with Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, in addition to key pursuits akin to Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This e-book additionally addresses the effect of either international Wars on experimental poetries and the the most important function of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. the gathering concludes with a wide-ranging dialogue of the inheritance of modernism in fresh writing on either side of the Atlantic

By Margaret Dickie

ISBN-10: 0877451400

ISBN-13: 9780877451402

Booklet by way of Dickie, Margaret

By George Eliot

ISBN-10: 0698408411

ISBN-13: 9780698408418

On April 10, 1994, PBS stations national will air the 1st episode of a lavish six-part Masterpiece Theatre creation of Eliot's really good paintings, Middlemarch, hosted by way of Russell Baker and produced through Louis Marks. the trendy Library is happy to provide this reliable spouse variation, entire with tie-in artwork and revealed on acid-free paper. Unabridged.

By Michael Levenson

ISBN-10: 0300111738

ISBN-13: 9780300111736

Publish yr note: First released September tenth 2007
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In this wide-ranging and unique account of Modernism, Michael Levenson attracts on greater than 20 years of analysis and a career-long fascination with the flow, its individuals, and the interval in which it thrived. looking a extra refined realizing of the kin among the period's texts and contexts, he offers not just a superb survey but additionally an important reassessment of Modernism itself.

Spanning many many years, illuminating person achievements and finding them in the intersecting histories of test (Symbolism to Surrealism, Naturalism to Expressionism, Futurism to Dadaism), the e-book areas the modifications of tradition along the agitations of modernity (war, revolution, feminism, psychoanalysis). during this standpoint, Modernism has to be understood extra widely than just by way of its provocative works, experimental varieties, and singular careers. really, as Levenson demonstrates, Modernism might be considered because the emergence of an adversary tradition of the hot that relied on audiences in addition to artists, enemies in addition to supporters.