A Genealogy of Modernism : a study of English literary doctrine, 1908-1922 / Michael H Levenson

By: Levenson, Michael HContributor(s): Levenson, Michael HMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984Description: xiii,250p. 24cmISBN: 9780521338004Subject(s): Literature | English & Old English literatures | American literature | English-speaking countries | Poetik | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countriesDDC classification: 820.9 LEV
Contents:
pt. 1. Progenitors: Consciousness: The modernist narrator on the Victorian sailing ship ; Arnold, Huxley, Pater: toward a small world and a large self -- Authority: Arnold and Babbitt: the best self and the new humanism ; Conrad: physis and psyche -- pt. 2. Provocation, 1908-1914: Dating Hulme/parsing modernism -- Ford: the passing of great figures: The Victorian sage in retirement ; Little moderns -- Egoists and imagists: The ego and his won ; Pound/upward ; Poets rampant -- Hulme: the progress of reaction: The classical phase ; Husserl, Frege, Moore ; The making of an anti-humanist -- Symbol, impression, image, vortex: The problem with imagism ; Impressionism and the prose tradition ; In search of a primary pigment -- pt. 3. Consolidation: The war among the moderns: The avant-garde in retreat ; Pound and Eliot, a counter-current -- The waste land: Speakers and ghosts ; The theory of points of view ; The painful task of unifying ; Myth, tradition, classicism -- Epilogue: The editor and the loathed disturber.
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pt. 1. Progenitors: Consciousness: The modernist narrator on the Victorian sailing ship ; Arnold, Huxley, Pater: toward a small world and a large self --
Authority: Arnold and Babbitt: the best self and the new humanism ; Conrad: physis and psyche --
pt. 2. Provocation, 1908-1914: Dating Hulme/parsing modernism --
Ford: the passing of great figures: The Victorian sage in retirement ; Little moderns --
Egoists and imagists: The ego and his won ; Pound/upward ; Poets rampant --
Hulme: the progress of reaction: The classical phase ; Husserl, Frege, Moore ; The making of an anti-humanist --
Symbol, impression, image, vortex: The problem with imagism ; Impressionism and the prose tradition ; In search of a primary pigment --
pt. 3. Consolidation: The war among the moderns: The avant-garde in retreat ; Pound and Eliot, a counter-current --
The waste land: Speakers and ghosts ; The theory of points of view ; The painful task of unifying ; Myth, tradition, classicism --
Epilogue: The editor and the loathed disturber.

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