1913: The Cradle of Modernism (Hardback)

Jean-Michel Rabate (author)

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Hardback 256 Pages / Published: 10/07/2007

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Synopsis

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

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 9781405151177
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 520 g
Dimensions: 236 x 166 x 20 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind Theodor Adorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of 'occult adjacentism'. Adorno, of course, meant this as a damning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcades project, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and its kaleidoscopic presentation of a world that troublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April 2009) "Rabate offers scholars and students a new portrait of cosmopolitan modernism to contemplate, making a study of globalization central to his understanding of the period's literary and artistic endeavors." (The Review of English Studies, June 2009) "This book's clarity and specificity will reward even readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highly recommended."(Choice)