Waking Giants

The Presence of the Past in Modernism

Inbunden, Engelska, 1991

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Schneidau's concern is with the way in which Modernism, named for its avant-garde propaganda, reveals itself to be dominated by a keen awareness, usually joyous, of the possibilities of the past recurring in the present. He argues that this idea represents a significant nexus in Modernism, an illuminating connection that explains some otherwise puzzling relationships.

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Utgivningsdatum1991-10-31
Mått149 x 227 x 23 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780195068627

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'Briefly: Publish it!... The organisation is cunning. Schneidau makes his constitutive points via Ulysses, which is widely known. He then springs two surprises: Hardy and Forster as precursors whom the Modernists found, for different reasons, congenial. That's followed by a chapter on The Secret Agent as Nightmare: not only the best pages on that novel I've read, but an illuminating stage in the book's overall argument.' Hugh Kenner, John Hopkins University