T E Hulme And The Ideological Politics Of Early Modernism

Author : Henry Mead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472582034

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Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T.E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme's relationship with New Age, a leading radical journal before the Great War, focussing particularly on his exchange of ideas with its editor, A.R. Orage. Through a ground-breaking account of Hulme's reading in continental literature, and his combative exchanges amongst the bohemian networks of Edwardian London, Mead shows how 'the strange death of Liberal England' coincided with Hulme's emergence as what T.S. Eliot called 'the forerunner of... the twentieth century mind'. Tracing his debts to French Symbolism, evolutionary psychology, Neo-Royalism, and philosophical pragmatism, the book shows how Hulme combined anarchist and conservative impulses in his journey towards a 'religious attitude'. The result is a nuanced account of Hulme's ideological politics, complicating the received view of his work as proto-fascist.

Author : Henry Mead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472582010

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T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism by Henry Mead Pdf

Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T.E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme's relationship with New Age, a leading radical journal before the Great War, focussing particularly on his exchange of ideas with its editor, A.R. Orage. Through a ground-breaking account of Hulme's reading in continental literature, and his combative exchanges amongst the bohemian networks of Edwardian London, Mead shows how 'the strange death of Liberal England' coincided with Hulme's emergence as what T.S. Eliot called 'the forerunner of... the twentieth century mind'. Tracing his debts to French Symbolism, evolutionary psychology, Neo-Royalism, and philosophical pragmatism, the book shows how Hulme combined anarchist and conservative impulses in his journey towards a 'religious attitude'. The result is a nuanced account of Hulme's ideological politics, complicating the received view of his work as proto-fascist.

Author : Edward P. Comentale,Andrzej Gąsiorek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106018467446

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T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism by Edward P. Comentale,Andrzej Gąsiorek Pdf

Though T. E. Hulme was a poet, critic, philosopher, aesthetician, and political theorist who helped define several major aesthetic and political movements, he has until recently been neglected by scholars. Each of the contributors to this collection highlights a different aspect of Hulme's work; taken together the essays demonstrate a shared belief in Hulme's decisive importance to the emergence of modernism and to the many categories that still govern our thinking about it.

Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426367

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Conservative Modernists by Christos Hadjiyiannis Pdf

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900-1920.

Author : N. Waddell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137265067

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Modernist Nowheres by N. Waddell Pdf

Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.

Author : Edward P. Comentale,Andrzej Gąsiorek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Modernism (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 1315611740

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T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism by Edward P. Comentale,Andrzej Gąsiorek Pdf

Author : Monica Cioli,Maurizio Ricciardi,Pierangelo Schiera
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593510309

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Traces of Modernism by Monica Cioli,Maurizio Ricciardi,Pierangelo Schiera Pdf

Traces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies--from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building--that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789602890

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Politics of Modernism by Raymond Williams Pdf

Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously and inclusively as "structures of feeling." In this major work, Williams applies himself to the problem of modernism. Rejecting stereotypes and simplifications, he is especially preoccupied with the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary socialist politics and the artistic avant-garde. Judiciously assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the modernist project, Williams shifts the framework of discussion from merely formal analysis of artistic techniques to one which grounds these cultural expressions in particular social formations. Animating the whole book is the question which Williams poses and brings us significantly closer to answering: namely, what does it mean to develop a cultural analysis that goes "beyond the modern" and yet avoids the trap of postmodernism's "new conformism"?

Author : Vincent Sherry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195360318

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Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism by Vincent Sherry Pdf

Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, the English modernists use the material of aesthetic experience to prove truths of human nature, making art the basis for social values and recommendations. This sensibility enriches their work, shaping the varied textures of Pound's Cantos and the complex designs of Lewis's painting and fiction, but their mastery of avant-garde techniques endorses the authority of an antique state. Sherry returns their "totalitarian synthesis" of art and politics to its originating moment, following its trajectory from 1910 to the eve of World War II.

Author : Andrew Hewitt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804726973

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Fascist Modernism by Andrew Hewitt Pdf

Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.

Author : Art Berman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252063910

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Preface to Modernism by Art Berman Pdf

Berman traces the conceptual lineage of modernism, examining its evolution in Western art and literature through empiricism, idealism, and romanticism. Using modernist literary and visual movements as examples, Berman demonstrates how modern social, political, and scientific developments--including capitalism, socialism, humanism, psychoanalysis, fascism, and modernism itself--have altered attitudes toward time, space, self, creativity, the natural world, and community.

Author : Anne Quéma
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aesthetics, British
ISBN : 0838753922

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The Agon of Modernism by Anne Quéma Pdf

"Lewis's political writings present ambiguities: his stated belief in the autonomy of art from life is contradicted by other statements he made and by his critical analyses of writers; and his political writings blur any a priori generic distinction between art and non-art. Given this blurring between art and life, artistic genre and non-artistic genre, Quema claims that Lewis's political texts present characteristics usually attributed to avant-gardism. However, this radicalism has to be balanced against Lewis's conservatism. Thus his political writings can be read as allegories with two pragmatic aims: to organize the life of the polis from an artistic standpoint and to persuade the reader to adhere to authoritarian politics."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Benjamin Kohlmann
Publisher : Oxford English Monographs
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198715467

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Committed Styles by Benjamin Kohlmann Pdf

Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the politicized literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism. It reclaims a central body of literary and critical works for modernist studies, offering in-depth readings of texts by T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards, as well as by key left-wing authors including William Empson, David Gascoyne, Charles Madge, Humphrey Jennings, and Edward Upward. Building on substantial new archival research, Benjamin Kohlmann explores the deep tensions between modernist experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of these works. Taking as its focus the work of these writers, the book argues that the close interactions between literary production, critical reflection, and political activism in the decade shaped the influential view of modernism as fundamentally apolitical. Intervening in debates about the long life of modernism, it contends that we need to take seriously the anti-modernist impulse of 1930s left-wing literature even when attention is paid to the formal complexity of these 'committed' works. The tonal ambiguities which run through the politicised literature of the 1930s thus effect not a disengagement from but a more thorough immersion in the profoundly conflicted political commitments of the decade. At the same time, the study shows that debates about the politics of writing in the 1930s continue to inform current debates about the relationship between literature and political commitment.

Author : Edward P. Comentale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521835895

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Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-garde by Edward P. Comentale Pdf

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Author : Tyrus Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520921992

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Late Modernism by Tyrus Miller Pdf

Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years. In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, new technological media and the social forces of mass politics opened fault lines in individual and collective experience, undermining the cultural bases of the modernist movement. He shows how late modernists attempted to discover ways of occupying this new and often dangerous cultural space. In doing so they laid bare the ruin of the modernist aesthetic at the same time as they transcended its limits. In his wide-ranging theoretical and historical discussion, Miller relates developments in literary culture to tendencies in the visual arts, cultural and political criticism, mass culture, and social history. He excavates Wyndham Lewis's hidden borrowings from Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer; situates Djuna Barnes between the imagery of haute couture and the intellectualism of Duchamp; uncovers Beckett's affinities with Giacometti's surrealist sculptures and the Bolshevik clowns Bim-Bom; and considers Mina Loy as both visionary writer and designer of decorative lampshades. Miller's lively and engaging readings of culture in this turbulent period reveal its surprising anticipation of our own postmodernity.