A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922Cambridge University Press, 1986 M06 27 - 250 páginas A Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of the twentieth-century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English culture. Michael Levenson analyses that complex process by following the successive phases of a literary movement - Impressionist, Imagist, Vorticist, Classicist - as it attempted to formulate the principles on which a new aesthetic might be founded. The emphasis here falls on the ideology of modernism, but throughout the book the ideological question is tied on the one hand to specific literary works and on the other to general movements in philosophy and the fine arts. The major figures under discussion, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Elliot, are placed in relation to thinkers who have been largely neglected in the history of modernism: Max Stirner, Wilhelm Worringer, Pierre Lasserre, Allen Upward, and Hilaire Belloc. Levenson thus situates the emergence of a modernist aesthetic within the context of literary theory, literary practice, and cultural history. |
Contenido
the progress of reaction | 6 |
Authority | 23 |
Provocation 19081914 | 37 |
the passing of great figures | 48 |
Egoists and Imagists | 63 |
Symbol impression image vortex | 103 |
Consolidation | 137 |
The Waste Land | 165 |
Epilogue The editor and the loathed disturber | 213 |
Notes | 221 |
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A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 Michael Harry Levenson Sin vista previa disponible - 1986 |
A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 Michael Harry Levenson Sin vista previa disponible - 1986 |
Términos y frases comunes
abandoned Absolute aesthetic Aldington Amy Lowell Anarchy appears Arnold artist attack attitude authority avant-garde Babbitt become Bergson Bergsonian Blast Bradley claims classicism Conrad consciousness critical cultural democracy depends distinct doctrine early Egoist emotional English essay experience expression Ezra Pound F. H. Bradley fact finite centres Ford Madox Ford Ford's Gaudier-Brzeska George Eliot Harriet Monroe historical Hulme's human Husserl Ibid Imagist Impressionism Impressionist individual insists intellectual issue James Lasserre later Letter Lewis lines literary literature London meaning metaphysical mind modern poetry modernist moral movement Narcissus narrator Nigger object Pater perspective philosophy phrase poem poet poetic point of view political position precise principle prose psychological reality recognized religion Richard Aldington romanticism sceptical sculpture Singleton social Speculations Stirner T. E. Hulme T. S. Eliot tendency theory things thought tradition vers libre verse Victorian Vorticism Vorticist Waste Land Worringer writes wrote Wyndham Lewis Yeats