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Modernism and the ideology of history : literature, politics, and the past /

Louise Williams explores the cyclical nature of historical memory in the work of five writers: Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence. Modernists, Williams argues, changed their attitude to history as a result of important conflicts within the period. This study will be essential reading for anyone...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Louise Blakeney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Immaterial pleasure houses": the initial aesthetic dilemma
  • "A more dream-heavy hour": medievalist and progressive beginnings
  • "Pedantry and hysteria": contemporary political problems
  • "A certain discipline": radical conservative solutions
  • "A particularly lively wheel": cyclic views emerge
  • "Our own image": the example of Asian and non-Western cultures
  • In "the grip of the ... vortex": the proof of post-impressionist art
  • The "cycle dance": cyclic history arrives
  • "The nightmare" and beyond: the First World War and mature cyclic theories.