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1913: The Cradle of Modernism
Jean-Michel Rabate
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Description for 1913: The Cradle of Modernism
Paperback. This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
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 Way
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405161923
SKU
V9781405161923
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99-50
About Jean-Michel Rabate
Jean-Michel Rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading figure among the generation of French theorists taught by Derrida and by Lacan. His books include the Blackwell Manifesto volume The Future of Theory (2002), The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001), ... Read more
Reviews for 1913: The Cradle of Modernism
"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind Theodor Adorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of 'occult adjacentism'. Adorno, of course, meant this as a damning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcades project, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and its kaleidoscopic presentation of a world that troublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April ... Read more