Beschreibung:
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
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
List of Illustrations viAcknowledgments viiIntroduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization 11 The New in the Arts 182 Collective Agencies 463 Everyday Life and the New Episteme 724 Learning to be Modern in 1913 965 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other 1186 The Splintered Subject of Modernism 1417 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism 1648 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia 185Conclusion: Antagonisms 208Notes 217Index 235