Staging the Trials of Modernism

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487501072
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Staging the Trials of Modernism by : Dale Barleben

Download or read book Staging the Trials of Modernism written by Dale Barleben and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce. By tracing the relationships between the literature, authors, media, and judicial procedure of the time, Barleben illuminates the somewhat macabre element of modern British trial process, which still enacts and re-enacts itself throughout contemporary judicial systems of the British Commonwealth. Using little seen legal documents, like Ford's contempt trial decision, Staging the Trials of Modernism uncovers the conversations between the interior style of British Modern authors and the ways in which law began rethinking concepts like intent and the subconscious. Barleben's fresh insights offer a nuanced look into the ways in which law influences literary production.

Constellation of Genius

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710333
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Constellation of Genius by : Kevin Jackson

Download or read book Constellation of Genius written by Kevin Jackson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a ‘constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316224309
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism by : Pericles Lewis

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism written by Pericles Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements have influenced the development of English-language modernism. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.

Modernism

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292043
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism by : Astradur Eysteinsson

Download or read book Modernism written by Astradur Eysteinsson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, ­all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.

The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472036106
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) by : James M. Harding

Download or read book The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) written by James M. Harding and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pronouncements such as “the avant-garde is dead,” argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gestures and expressions to suggest “avant-garde pluralities” and how an appreciation of these pluralities enables a more dynamic and increasingly global understanding of vanguardism in the performing arts. In pursuing this goal, the book not only surveys a wide variety of canonical and noncanonical examples of avant-garde performance, but also develops a range of theoretical paradigms that defend the haunting cultural and political significance of avant-garde expressions beyond what critics have presumed to be the death of the avant-garde. The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective not only on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies but also on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy.

Staging Modernist Lives

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773548963
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Staging Modernist Lives by : Sasha Colby

Download or read book Staging Modernist Lives written by Sasha Colby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women’s lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and race and gender relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Leveraging each writer’s autobiographical materials, the plays explore the work of H.D., Loy, and Cunard as artists, publishers, and activists, their quests for self-definition amid political and historical upheaval, and their development as modernists among mentors, detractors, lovers, and friends including Bryher Ellerman, Ezra Pound, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, Arthur Cravan, D.H. Lawrence, and Pablo Neruda. Navigating the emerging field of research-creation, Staging Modernist Lives maps the critical terrain for dramatized literary inquiry. Bridging scholarship and creative practice, extant biographical drama and the possibilities of research-theatre, Staging Modernist Lives demonstrates how performance can deliver literary history to new audiences - and how research in turn reinvigorates itself through performance.

The Modernist Papers

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783471
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis The Modernist Papers by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book The Modernist Papers written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity . The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.

Modernism: The Basics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317537890
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism: The Basics by : Laura Winkiel

Download or read book Modernism: The Basics written by Laura Winkiel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as: What is modernism? How did modernism begin? Has modernism developed differently in different media? How is it related to postmodernism and postcolonialism? How have politics, urbanization and new technologies affected modernism? With engaging examples from art, literature and historical documents, each chapter provides suggestions for further reading, histories of relevant movements and clear definitions of key terminology, making this an essential guide for anyone approaching the study of modernism for the first time.

Staged

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545738
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Staged by : Minou Arjomand

Download or read book Staged written by Minou Arjomand and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term “show trials” suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging the era’s great trials as shows. The Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Auschwitz trials were all performed multiple times, first in courts and then in theaters. Does justice require both courtrooms and stages? In Staged, Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American rehearsals and performances to reveal how theater can become a place for forms of storytelling and judgment that are inadmissible in a court of law but indispensable for public life. She unveils the affinities between dramatists like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Weiss and philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, showing how they responded to the rise of fascism with a new politics of performance. Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521828090
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism by : Pericles Lewis

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism written by Pericles Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Reframing Russian Modernism

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ISBN 13 : 0299320405
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Reframing Russian Modernism by : Irina Shevelenko

Download or read book Reframing Russian Modernism written by Irina Shevelenko and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents modernism in Russia through the lens of its engagement with politics, science, religion, and other social practices. In the early twentieth century, when many Russian social institutions looked to the past, modernist arts powerfully amplified a gamut of new ideas about individual and collective transformation.

Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319986392
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Scottish Theatre since 1969 written by Mark Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre director Giles Havergal at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow in 1969 through to the advent of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2006. Finally, the book contemplates the future of Scotland’s theatrical renaissance. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary theatre and/or the modern history of live drama in Scotland.

The Modernist World

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317696158
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis The Modernist World by : Allana Lindgren

Download or read book The Modernist World written by Allana Lindgren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume. The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.

The Difficulties of Modernism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135374554
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Difficulties of Modernism written by Leonard Diepeveen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.

The Scopes Trial

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Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608703762
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Scopes Trial by : Michael Burgan

Download or read book The Scopes Trial written by Michael Burgan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive information on the Scopes trial, evolution, fundamentalism, and American education and the differing perspectives accompanying them.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804413
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by : Christopher Butler

Download or read book Modernism: A Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Butler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Modernism's History

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Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868407449
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Modernism's History written by Bernard Smith and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing movements from post-impressionism to post-modernism, eminent and widely published art historian Bernard Smith has written a sweeping history, a reformulation of art history in the twentieth century.