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1913: The Cradle of Modernism
Contributor(s): Rabaté, Jean-Michel (Author)

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 ISBN: 140515117X     ISBN-13: 9781405151177
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE: $108.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2007
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Annotation: This innovative volume puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. This significant year was marked by many critical events and happenings, such as the first international recognition of non-Western writers when the Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore; it was also the last year of peace before the eruption of the First World War.

"1913" examines the wide range of diverse artistic, literary, and political endeavours undertaken in this one year. For example, while Yeats and Pound were collaborating at Stone Cottage and discovering Japanese culture, Joyce was completing his autobiographical novel in Trieste, Du Bois was creating his Ethiopian pageant in New York, and Paris was resounding with the scandal caused by Stravinsky's contested "Rite of Spring." The book also explores and compares Apollinaire's "Alcools "and Rilke's "Spanish Trilogy" with Pound's "Personae," and Edith Wharton's "The Custom of the Country" with Proust's "Swann's Way," Engaging and insightful, this volume will encourage the reader to appreciate the breadth of activity that took place in this pivotal year, and its lasting influence.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 809.041
LCCN: 2006052663
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.45" W x 9.21" L (1.16 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 259
 
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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
 
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