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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877340803321

Autore

Rabaté Jean-Michel <1949->

Titolo

1913 [[electronic resource] ] : the cradle of modernism / / Jean-Michel Rabaté

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

9786611069599

1-281-06959-0

0-470-76641-7

1-281-30917-6

9786611309176

0-470-69220-0

0-470-69147-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306

809/.041

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1913 : The Cradle of Modernism; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization; 1 The New in the Arts; 2 Collective Agencies; 3 Everyday Life and the New Episteme; 4 Learning to be Modern in 1913; 5 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other; 6 The Splintered Subject of Modernism; 7 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism; 8 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia; Conclusion: Antagonisms; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky Explores Pound's Personae next to



Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's