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.
This work analyses at length how difficulty has been crucial to modern literature and culture. The author argues that the simultaneous appearance of m...
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.
This work analyses at length how difficulty has been crucial to modern literature and culture. The author argues that the simultaneous appearance of m...
How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines like Punch and Vanity Fair, and literary magazines. In the earliest decades of the movement - before modernist artists were considered important, and before modernism's meaning was clearly understood - many of these interpretations took the form of parodies.
Mock Modernism is an anthology of these amusing pieces, the...
How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modern...
