Waking giants : the presence of the past in modernism /
This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to "make it new" stemmed from seeing the past as a source of renewal. Schneidau focuses on separate texts that incorporate these concepts: Joyce's Ulysses, Hardy's poems, Forster's H. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1423737091 9781423737094 1601298129 9781601298126 9780195068627 0195068629 1280440864 9781280440861 |