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The Concept of Modernism (Paperback, New edition)
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The Concept of Modernism (Paperback, New edition)
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The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of
twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur
Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not
emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a
product of critical practices relating to nontraditional
literature. Intervening in these practices, and correlating them
with modernist works and with modern literary theory, Eysteinsson
undertakes a comprehensive reexamination of the idea of modernism.
Eysteinsson critically explores various manifestations of modernism
in a rich array of American, British, and European literature,
criticism, and theory. He first examines many modernist paradigms,
detecting in them a conflict between modernism's culturally
subversive potential and its relatively conservative status as a
formalist project. He then considers these paradigms as
interpretations-and fabrications-of literary history. Seen in this
light, modernism both signals a historical change on the literary
scene and implies the context of that change. Laden with the
implications of tradition and modernity, modernism fills its major
function: that of highlighting and defining the complex relations
between history and postrealist literature. Eysteinsson focuses on
the ways in which the concept of modernism directs our
understanding of literature and literary history and influences our
judgment of experimental and postrealist works in literature and
art. He discusses in detail the relation of modernism to the key
concepts postmodernism, the avant-garde, and realism. Enacting a
crisis of subject and reference, modernism is not so much a form of
discourse, he asserts, as its interruption-a possible "other"
modernity that reveals critical aspects of our social and
linguistic experience in Western culture. Comparatists, literary
theorists, cultural historians, and others interested in
twentieth-century literature and art will profit from this
provocative book.
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