The Difficulties of Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780415940696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str.

Leonard Diepeveen

Opis

This work analyses at length how difficulty has been crucial to modern literature and culture. The author argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and popular discussion about difficulty and unintelligibility in art and literature was not coincidental: difficulty allowed modernism to rise, and it was central to how modernism shaped the canon of twentieth century literature.

Recenzje

"...draw[s] conclusions on how art best serves culture." -- Choice
"After more than thirty years of continuing Marxist, feminist, postcolonial and postmodernist demystification of modernism and its critical companion, New Criticism, Leonard Diepeveen's book The Difficulties of Modernism returns to the earliest and most persistent attack voiced against modernist art: its difficulty." -- Vivian Liska, Modern Language Quarterly
"The scope of Diepeveen's book is more than impressive, its stance admirably measured." -- V. Nicholas Lolordo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Contemporary Literature

Spis treści

Chapter One: Difficulty as FashonChapter Two: InherenceChapter Three: Professional Romanticism Defending DifficultyChapter Four: Difficulty, Vigor, and PleasureChapter Five: Simplicity, Purity, and the Modern CanonConclusion: Modern Difficulty's Inheritance

O autorze

Leonard Diepeveen