Solid Objects : Modernism and the Test of Production

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In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mao, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Production (Economic theory) in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Material culture in literature.
Material culture.
European literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Culture materielle > Europe.
Culture materielle dans la litterature.
Production dans la litterature.
Litterature europeenne > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Litterature)
Material culture > Europe.
European literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objects, seemed to partake of a utopian serenity beyond the reach of human ideological conflicts. Under a variety of historical pressures, Mao observes, these writers came to revere the making of such things, and especially t.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9781400822706

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