Waking Giants : The Presence of the Past in Modernism - Herbert N. Schneidau

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Waking Giants

The Presence of the Past in Modernism

By: Herbert N. Schneidau

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Hardcover | 15 August 1991

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296 Pages

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This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to "make it new" stemmed from seeing the past as a source of renewal. Schneidau focuses on separate texts that incorporate these concepts: Joyce's Ulysses, Hardy's poems, Forster's Howards End, Conrad's Secret Agent, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and finally Pound's Cantos. In his discussions, many little-noticed connections are examined, including a transatlantic set: Hardy with Pound, Forster with Fitzgerald, Joyce and Lawrence with Anderson.

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'Briefly: Publish it!... The organisation is cunning. Schneidau makes his constitutive points via Ulysses, which is widely known. He then springs two surprises: Hardy and Forster as precursors whom the Modernists found, for different reasons, congenial. That's followed by a chapter on The Secret Agent as Nightmare: not only the best pages on that novel I've read, but an illuminating stage in the book's overall argument.' Hugh Kenner, John Hopkins University

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory History General & World History Society & Culture Cultural Studies

Introduction/The Persistence of Memory: Joyce's Regress from Mortmain to Atavism	p. 3
The Century's Corpse Outleant: Hardy and Modernism	p. 25
Safe as Houses: Forster as Cambridge Anthropologist	p. 64
The Primal Scene in The Secret Agent: Sex and Violence in the Nightmare Universe	p. 103
The Personal Past Recaptured: Anderson and Sons	p. 136
Ezra Pound: The Archaeology of the Immanent	p. 202
Index	p. 273
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The Presence of the Past in Modernism

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