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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454418303321

Autore

Ross Stephen

Titolo

Modernism and theory [[electronic resource] ] : a critical debate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2009

ISBN

1-135-26700-6

1-282-08474-7

9786612084744

0-203-87086-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

306

700/.4112

Soggetti

Modernism (Aesthetics)

Modernism (Literature)

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The missing link; Part I Theory's modernism: Concrete connections; 1 Rip the veil of the old vision across, and walk through the rent; Deleuze and his sources: Response to Anneleen Masschelein; 2 Modernism, postmodernism, and the two sublimes of surrealism; The two sublimes, fourth time around: Response to Roger Rothman; 3 "What true project has been lost?": Modern art and Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life; Disdained everyday fields: Response to Thomas S. Davis

4 Time and its countermeasures: Modern messianisms in Woolf, Benjamin, and AgambenTime's exception: Response to Hilary Thompson; Part II Modernism's theory: Abstract affiliations; 5 The persistence of the old regime: Late modernist form in the postmodern period; In the time of theory, the timeliness of modernism: Response to Neil Levi; 6 Invisible times: Modernism as ruptural unity; More than a



hint of desperation - historicizing modernism: Response to C. D. Blanton; 7 "This new evolution of art": Adorno's modernism as a re-orientation of aesthetics

What's new? On Adorno and the modernist aesthetics of novelty: Response to Oleg Gelikman8 Fables of progression: Modernism, modernity, narrative; Modernism and the moment of defeat: Response to Andrew John Miller; Part III Forum; 9 Aesthetics; 10 Ethics; 11 Green; 12 Avant-garde; 13 Theory; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Modernism and Theory boldly asks what - if any - role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a clear introduction, this collection of new essays from leading critics outlines ongoing debates on the nature of modernist culture.This collection examines aesthetic and methodological links between modernist literature and theory.addresses questions of the importance of theory to our understanding of 'modernism' and modernism as a literary category.considers intersections of mod