TY - BOOK AU - Levenson, Michael H AU - Levenson, Michael H TI - A Genealogy of Modernism : : a study of English literary doctrine, 1908-1922 SN - 9780521338004 U1 - 820.9 LEV PY - 1984/// CY - New York PB - : Cambridge University Press KW - Literature KW - English & Old English literatures KW - American literature KW - English-speaking countries KW - Poetik KW - American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries N1 - 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 ER -