A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922Cambridge University Press, 27.06.1986 - 250 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Authority | 23 |
Provocation 19081914 | 37 |
the passing of great figures | 48 |
Egoists and Imagists | 63 |
the progress of reaction | 80 |
Symbol impression image vortex | 103 |
Consolidation | 137 |
9 | 146 |
Epilogue The editor and the loathed disturber | 213 |
245 | |
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A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 Michael Harry Levenson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1986 |
A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 Michael Harry Levenson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1986 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absolute abstract Action Française aesthetic Aldington Amy Lowell appeared Arnold artist attack attitude avant-garde Babbitt become Bergson Bergsonian Blast Bradley Bradley's called classicism Conrad consciousness critical cultural depends distinct doctrine early Egoist emotional English essay experience expression Ezra Pound F. H. Bradley fact finite centres Ford Madox Ford Ford's Futurist Gaudier-Brzeska Harriet Monroe Hulme's human Husserl Ibid Imagist Impressionism Impressionist individual insisted intellectual issue James Lasserre Letter lines literary literature London meaning metaphysical Modern poetry modernist moral movement Narcissus narrator object Pater perspective phase philosophy poem poem's poet poetic point of view polemical position principle prose psychological published reality religion rhetoric Richard Aldington romantic romanticism sceptical sculpture social Speculations Stirner suggest T. E. Hulme T. S. Eliot tendency theory things thought tradition Univ vers libre verse Victorian Vorticism Vorticist Waste Land Worringer writes wrote Wyndham Lewis Yeats York