LEADER 05408pam 2200901 a 450 001 9910496142803321 005 20230828201534.0 010 $a0-520-92199-2 010 $a0-585-07912-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520921993 035 $a(CKB)111004366722868 035 $a(MH)008002854-3 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189528 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12011192 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189528 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157255 035 $a(PQKB)11636657 035 $a(DE-B1597)648588 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520921993 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366722868 100 $a19980610d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLate modernism $epolitics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars /$fTyrus Miller$b[electronic resource] 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 263 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-21035-2 311 $a0-520-21648-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aTyrus 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aPolitics and literature$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$y20th century$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aModernism (Literature)$xHistory and criticism$y20th century$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitical fiction 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial life and customs$y1918-1945 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aModernism (Literature)$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPolitical fiction 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a823/.91209112 700 $aMiller$b Tyrus$f1963-$01142393 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496142803321 996 $aLate modernism$92866619 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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