Author : Jewel Spears Brooker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015031820403
Mastery and Escape by Jewel Spears Brooker Pdf
This book examines modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon. It distinguishes between two groups of modernists, one consisting mostly of exiles and characterised by internationalism and intellectual complexity, the other comprising primarily artists who consciously resist the aesthetic and political tendencies of the first group. The focus here is on the first group, and more particularly, on T.S. Eliot. Included are chapters on Mallarme and Hulme and extended discussions of Yeats and Joyce. In the social sciences, special attention is given to Frazer, Freud, and F.H. Bradley. Viewing modernism as an ideological term, the text evaluates contending theories, including those of Jeffrey Perl and of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar.