Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text Contributor(s): Lehan, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807143677 ISBN-13: 9780807143674 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 809.91 |
Series: Southern Messenger Poets |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.23 lbs) 360 pages |
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Publisher Description: Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition, but the Nietzschean theory that reality depends on perception connected them all. This modernist movement reached a distinguished level of achievement with novelists Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce, but a succession of counterinfluences transformed it after World War II, when elitism and a desire for a homogeneous culture gave way to diversity and elements of mass culture. In Literary Modernism and Beyond, Richard Lehan tracks the evolution of the movement from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its recent incarnations. |