Описание: Twentieth-century authors were profoundly influenced by changes in the way nations and states governed their citizens. The development of state administrative technologies allowed modern Western states to identify, track and regulate their populations in unprecedented ways. Patricia E. Chu argues that innovations of form and style developed by Anglo-American modernist writers chart anxieties about personal freedom in the face of increasing governmental controls. Chu examines a diverse set of texts and films, including works by T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston and others, to explore how modernists perceived their work and their identities in relation to state power. Additionally, she sheds new light on modernists' ideas about race, colonialism and the post-colonial, as race came increasingly to be seen as a political and governmental construct. This book offers a powerful critique of key themes for scholars of modernism, American literature and twentieth-century literature.
Автор: Hobson, Suzanne Название: Angels of modernism ISBN: 0230275397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230275393 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13364 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.
Описание: The Search for Modernism in Russian Theater. One mans impact on the performing arts in Russia.
Автор: Julia A. Walker Название: Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre ISBN: 0521847478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521847476 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14460 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices, and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
Автор: Ronald Schleifer Название: Modernism and Time ISBN: 0521661242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521661249 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13558 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Modernism and Time, Ronald Schleifer analyses the transition from the Enlightenment to post-Enlightenment ways of understanding in Western thought. Schleifer argues that this transition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century expresses itself centrally in an altered conception of temporality. He examines this period's remarkable breaks with the past in literature, music, and the arts more generally. Whereas Enlightenment thought sees time as a homogenous, neutral medium, in which events and actions take place, post-Enlightenment thought sees time as discontinuous and inexorably bound up with both the subjects and events that seem to inhabit it. This fundamental change of perception, Schleifer argues, takes place across disciplines as varied as physics, economics and philosophy. Schleifer’s study engages with the work of writers and thinkers as varied as George Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Einstein and Russell, and offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism.
Автор: Paige Reynolds Название: Modernism, Drama, and the Audience for Irish Spectacle ISBN: 0521872995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521872997 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12112 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Employing previously unexamined archival material, Paige Reynolds reconstructs five large-scale public events in early twentieth-century Irish culture: the riotous premiere of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World in 1907; the events of Dublin Suffrage Week, including the Irish premiere of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, in 1913; the funeral processions of the playwright and Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney in 1920; the sporting and arts competitions of the Tailteann Games in 1924; and the organized protests accompanying the premiere of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars in 1926. The book provides attentive readings of the literature and theatre famously produced in tandem with these events, as well as introducing surprising texts that made valuable contributions to Irish national theatre. This detailed study revises pessimistic explanations of twentieth-century mass politics and crowd dynamics by introducing a more sympathetic account of national communities and national sentiment.
Автор: Edward P. Comentale Название: Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-garde ISBN: 0521835895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521835893 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13558 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Edward Comentale exposes the links between art, literature and early twentieth-century capitalism. Comentale shows how apparently progressive avant-garde
movements in their celebration of individualism, competition and labor worked hand in hand with a market defined by a monstrous increase in production and consumption. Most
importantly, he unearths an alternative modernist practice based on a special kind of production that both critiques and challenges economic production at large.
He goes on
to argue that the British avant-garde, which has often been criticized for its emphasis on classical stasis and restraint, sought to halt this market activity and to think of less destructive
ways of communal belonging. Comentale provides an interdisciplinary study examining art and sculpture as well as writing by Virginia Woolf, T. S.
Eliot and H. D. among
others, in the light of psychoanalytic, economic and political theory.
This book will be of interest to scholars of literary and cultural modernism.
Автор: Edited by Walter Kalaidjian Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism ISBN: 052182995X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521829953 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12293 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, race, gender and the impact of music and visual arts on literary modernism, as well as overviews of the achievements of American modernism in fiction, poetry and drama. The book concludes with a chapter on modern American criticism. An essential reference guide to the field, the Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States, and an up-to-date bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Автор: Sarah Cole Название: Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War ISBN: 0521036143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521036146 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5964 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sarah Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. Cole approaches this complex and neglected topic from many perspectives - as a reflection of the exceptional social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as a matter of closeted and thwarted homoerotics; as part of the story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important context for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. She foregrounds such crucial themes as the over-determined relations between imperial wanderers in Conrad’s tales, the broken friendships that permeate Forster’s fictions, Lawrence’s desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have helped to define a particular spirit and voice within the literary canon.
Автор: George Bornstein Название: Material Modernism ISBN: 0521024854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521024853 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6145 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Material Modernism draws on editorial theory, cultural studies and the history of the book to argue for a freshly historicized reading of modernism. Instead of taking texts as consisting of disembodied words, Bornstein considers their physical bodies as themselves semantically important. He argues that current constructions of literary modernism - like those that regard its achievements and attitudes as favoring the anti-historical over the historical, or product over process - are derived from the fixed, current, material forms of its texts. By studying modernism in its original sites of production and in the continually shifting physicality of its transmissions, an alternative construction emerges that emphasizes historical contingency, multiple versions, and the material features of the text itself. Bornstein recontextualizes works by a range of British, Irish, and American authors, including W. B. Yeats, Emma Lazarus, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, James Joyce, and writers of the Harlem Renaissance, among others.
Описание: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. This book situates Ibsen in his cultural context, emphasizes his position as a Norwegian in European culture, and shows how important painting and other visual arts were for his aesthetic education.
Автор: Jobling David, Pippin Tina, Schleifer R Ronald, Название: 21st-century Modernism ISBN: 0631219706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631219705 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5264 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Argues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns.
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