1913: The Cradle of Modernism

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Description

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.

Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way

About the Author

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading figure among the generation of French theorists taught by Derrida and by Lacan. His books include the Blackwell Manifesto volume The Future of Theory (2002), The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001), and Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime (2006). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002), Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), and the Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies (2004).

Features

An innovative study written by the world-renowned theorist, Jean-Michel Rabate
Uses the year 1913 as a framework to illustrate the presence of modernism before World War I
Puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context
Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way

To Purchase this product, please visit

https://dev.store.wiley.com/en-us/1913%3A+The+Cradle+of+Modernism-p-9780470692202