The Difficulties of Modernism (Paperback)

In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was 'running rampant in literature', that art had become a 'plague of unintelligibilty'. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to manoeuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	2003
Authors:	Leonard Diepeveen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-94069-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-415-94069-9
Barcode:	9780415940696

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