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Paradoxy of modernism

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 th...

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Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press , c2006
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Verantwortlich:Robert Scholes
Inhaltsangabe:
  • High and low in Modernist criticismOld 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.