1913: The Cradle of Modernism

Rabaté, Jean-Michel

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

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2007-11-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781405161923

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Dimensions: 229.9cm x153.7cm

Pages: 256.0