The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of
intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they
chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By
closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul
Jackson's study engages with the political and philosophical
responses of literary artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates
the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic
phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By
placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis,
against a figure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G.
Wells, Jackson examines further a wartime modernism that embraced
socialist and political views. This reinterpretation of modernism
provides a historicised understanding of the politicised hopes of
artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal.
Considering modernist writers' relationship between
politics,philosophy and aesthetics in the context of total war
Jackson encourages new cultural-historical definitions of
modernism. In addition this study provides the first close analysis
of cultural contributions from a leading wartime Little Magazine,
tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in its pages.
General
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Historicizing Modernism |
| Release date: |
September 2012 |
| First published: |
July 2012 |
| Authors: |
Paul Jackson
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4411-8008-7 |
| Languages: |
English
|
| Subtitles: |
English
|
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary studies >
From 1900
|
| LSN: |
1-4411-8008-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781441180087 |
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