Paradoxy of modernism:
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Main Author: Scholes, Robert 1929-2016 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press c2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index
High and low in Modernist criticism -- Old and new in Modernist art -- Poetry and rhetoric in the Modernist montage -- Hard and soft : Joyce and others -- Durable fluff : the importance of not being earnest -- Iridescent mediocrity : Dornford Yates and others -- Formulaic creativity : Simenon's Maigret novels -- Model artists in Paris : Hastings, Hammett, and Kiki -- The aesthete in the brothel : Proust and others
Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945 he contends that the binary oppositions which defined modernism are misleading. He argues that such oppositions are instances of 'paradoxy', an apparent clarity that covers real confusion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 295 p.)
ISBN:0300128843
9780300128840

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