The Politics of Modernism

The Politics of Modernism
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1859841619
ISBN-13 : 9781859841617
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Modernism by : Raymond Williams

This is an exploration of the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary politics and modernist or avant-garde art. Williams clarifies many of the issues that have dogged recent critical discussion: the term "modernism" itself; the distinction between modernism and avant garde; and the possibility of a cultural theory "beyond the modern" which avoids the pitfalls of postmodernism.

Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780231161497
ISBN-13 : 0231161492
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism by : Ewa Płonowska Ziarek

Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies of modernity and within the friction between material injuries and experimental aesthetic forms. Ziarek's political and aesthetic investigations concern the exclusion and destruction of women in politics and literary production and the transformation of this oppression into the inaugural possibilities of writing and action. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly the writing of Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, along with feminist theories on the politics of race and gender. By bringing seemingly apolitical, gender-neutral debates about modernism's experimental forms together with an analysis of violence and destroyed materialities, Ziarek challenges both the anti-aesthetic subordination of modern literature to its political uses and the appreciation of art's emancipatory potential at the expense of feminist and anti-racist political struggles.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9780192804419
ISBN-13 : 0192804413
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by : Christopher Butler

A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism

Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780226159430
ISBN-13 : 0226159434
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism by : Erika Doss

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Late Modernism

Late Modernism
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780812200072
ISBN-13 : 0812200071
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Late Modernism by : Robert Genter

In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism—Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky—and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to pop art, and the barren formalism associated with the so-called high modernists wilted before the hothouse cultural brew of the 1960s. According to conventional thinking, it was around this time that postmodernism with its characteristic skepticism and relativism was born. In Late Modernism, historian Robert Genter remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Dispensing with traditional narratives that present this moment as marking the exhaustion of modernism, Genter argues instead that the 1950s were the apogee of the movement, as American practitioners—abstract expressionists, Beat poets, formalist critics, color-field painters, and critical theorists, among others—debated the relationship between form and content, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and politics. In this compelling work of intellectual and cultural history Genter presents an invigorated tradition of late modernism, centered on the work of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, Jasper Johns, Norman Brown, and James Baldwin, a tradition that overcame the conservative and reactionary politics of competing modernist practitioners and paved the way for the postmodern turn of the 1960s.

Modernism and Mass Politics

Modernism and Mass Politics
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780804764698
ISBN-13 : 0804764697
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernism and Mass Politics by :

Examining in detail the surprising similarities between modernist literature and contemporary theories of the crowd, this work shows that many modernist literary forms emerged out of efforts to write in the idiom of the crowd mind.

The Politics of Modernism

The Politics of Modernism
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Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001632894
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Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Modernism by : Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams applied himself to modernism in this, his last major work. He concerns himself with how to get beyond the "new conformism" and develop a cultural politics that goes beyond the "Modern."

The Politics of Irony in American Modernism

The Politics of Irony in American Modernism
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780823255450
ISBN-13 : 082325545X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Irony in American Modernism by : Matthew Stratton

The Politics of Irony in American Modernism traces how "irony" emerged as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices in American literature of the twentieth century's first half. It is the first study to derive definitions of irony inductively from its widespread use within modernist culture.

Modernist Commitments

Modernist Commitments
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780231149518
ISBN-13 : 0231149514
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernist Commitments by : Jessica Berman

Modernism has long been characterized as more concerned with aesthetics than politics, but Jessica Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities—ideas about what we ought to be and do—to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges the divisions usually drawn between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation.

Anarchist Modernism

Anarchist Modernism
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 0226021033
ISBN-13 : 9780226021034
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Anarchist Modernism by : Allan Antliff

Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.