05408pam 2200901 a 450 991049614280332120230828201534.00-520-92199-20-585-07912-910.1525/9780520921993(CKB)111004366722868(MH)008002854-3(SSID)ssj0000189528(PQKBManifestationID)12011192(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189528(PQKBWorkID)10157255(PQKB)11636657(DE-B1597)648588(DE-B1597)9780520921993(EXLCZ)9911100436672286819980610d1999 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLate modernism politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars /Tyrus Miller[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Pressc19991 online resource (xii, 263 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-21035-2 0-520-21648-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part One: Theorizing late modernism -- Introduction: The problem of late modernism -- The end of modernism: rationalization, spectacle, and laughter -- Part Two: Reading late modernism -- The self-condemned: Wyndham Lewis -- Beyond rescue: Djuna Barnes -- Improved out of all knowledge: Samuel Beckett -- Epilogue: More or less silent: Mina Loy's novel Insel.Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, new technological media and the social forces of mass politics opened fault lines in individual and collective experience, undermining the cultural bases of the modernist movement. He shows how late modernists attempted to discover ways of occupying this new and often dangerous cultural space. In doing so they laid bare the ruin of the modernist aesthetic at the same time as they transcended its limits.In his wide-ranging theoretical and historical discussion, Miller relates developments in literary culture to tendencies in the visual arts, cultural and political criticism, mass culture, and social history. He excavates Wyndham Lewis's hidden borrowings from Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer; situates Djuna Barnes between the imagery of haute couture and the intellectualism of Duchamp; uncovers Beckett's affinities with Giacometti's surrealist sculptures and the Bolshevik clowns Bim-Bom; and considers Mina Loy as both visionary writer and designer of decorative lampshades. Miller's lively and engaging readings of culture in this turbulent period reveal its surprising anticipation of our own postmodernity.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)Great BritainAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureHistory20th centuryPolitical fictionHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesModernism (Literature)English-speaking countriesPolitics and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesHistory20th centuryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism20th centuryEnglish-speaking countriesModernism (Literature)History and criticism20th centuryEnglish-speaking countriesAmerican fictionHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureHistory and criticismPolitical fictionEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCGreat BritainSocial life and customs1918-1945English fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)American fictionHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryPolitical fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Modernism (Literature)Politics and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)History and criticismAmerican fictionHistoryPolitics and literatureHistory and criticismPolitical fictionEnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature823/.91209112Miller Tyrus1963-1142393DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910496142803321Late modernism2866619UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress