Beginning modernism

By: Jeff Wallace, Peter Barry (Editor), John McLeod (Editor)

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Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite.

Beginning Modernism offers a clear and reader-friendly introduction to this complex and invigorating subject. With an emphasis on the close reading of modernist artefacts, from literary texts to buildings, paintings to musical compositions, the book aims to demystify the notorious difficulties of 'high' modernism, showing them to be an incentive rather than an obstacle to understanding and exploration. At the same time, it highlights the emergence of a new modernist studies, emphasizing the eclectic, the popular, and the global or transnational. Readers are encouraged to situate their reading of modernist literature within a wider set of cultural contexts, which include: visual art; ideas of time and space; sculpture; photography; film; politics; technology; sexuality; primitivism; architecture; dance; drama, and music.

Beginning Modernism will be of interest both to the general reader, and to undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of literary studies, art history and cultural studies. -- .

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List of figures	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Modernist studies past and present	p. 1
Stop and think	p. 4
Key terms: modernism, modernity, postmodernism	p. 14
Selected reading	p. 23
Modernism and the visual arts	p. 26
Narrating modernist art	p. 27
Stop and think	p. 30
Realism, the 'moment' of Cubism, and abstraction	p. 31
Stop and think	p. 45
Impressionism and Expressionism: uses of autonomy?	p. 46
Stop and think	p. 54
The question of the avant-garde: Futurism, Dada, Surrealism	p. 55
Stop and think	p. 64
Photography: from visual art to visual culture	p. 65
Selected reading	p. 72
History and the politics of modernism	p. 75
The First World War	p. 77
The Bolshevik Revolution	p. 82
Stop and think	p. 85
Weimar and Bauhaus	p. 86
Stop and think	p. 91
Empire and colonialism	p. 91
Technology	p. 94
Fordist capitalism and consumer culture	p. 98
Sex reform and gender relations	p. 101
The politics of modernism	p. 109
Stop and think	p. 113
Selected reading	p. 113
Modernist ideas	p. 117
The secular	p. 117
Evolution and entropy	p. 121
Physics, fields and forces	p. 124
Language	p. 128
Stop and think	p. 133
Time and space	p. 136
Stop and think	p. 136
Primitivism	p. 141
The human subject	p. 147
Selected reading	p. 152
Modernist spaces	p. 155
Metropolis	p. 156
Architecture	p. 164
Stop and think	p. 168
Sculpture	p. 176
Selected reading	p. 185
Modernist poetry	p. 187
Reading the modernist poem	p. 187
Stop and think	p. 188
Symbolism and music	p. 191
Imagism	p. 198
Stop and think	p. 199
Mina Loy and H.D.	p. 203
Rereading Pound and Eliot	p. 207
Beyond universalism and Eurocentrism	p. 212
Selected reading	p. 216
Modernist fiction	p. 218
The art of modernist fiction	p. 218
Stop and think	p. 221
The emergence of modernist fiction	p. 225
Stream of consciousness	p. 229
Narrative time and space	p. 234
The modernist novel of irony	p. 241
Selected reading	p. 247
Performing modernism	p. 249
Total art	p. 249
Drama	p. 254
Stop and think	p. 256
Film	p. 263
Stop and think	p. 268
Music	p. 273
Stop and think (and listen)	p. 273
Dance	p. 281
Selected reading	p. 286
Conclusion: continuing modernism	p. 289
Stop and think	p. 290
Index	p. 301
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