[PDF] Modernism On The Open Sea eBook

Author : Richard Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1623562597

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John McGahern's work is not easily conceived of as belatedly modernist. His memorialising, faintly archaic style implies a concern with 'making it old' rather than new, suggesting the symptomatic diffidence of many who wrote in the wake of modernism. Nevertheless, McGahern's statements about the 'presence' of words and the hard-won impersonality of the artwork point to a covert engagement with modernist aesthetics. Offering intertextual interpretations of McGahern's six novels, and of thematically grouped short stories, Richard Robinson reads McGahern's fiction alongside writing by Joyce, Proust, Yeats, Beckett, Nietzsche, Lawrence and Chekhov, amongst others. Drawing out the ways in which McGahern's fiction conceals and reveals its modernist traces, this study considers subjects such as 'low' modernism, the complexity of McGahern's time-writing and his dialectical construction of the relationship between cultural tradition and modernity in Ireland. McGahern's narratives of melancholic return are often read psycho-biographically, but they also involve a return to the remnants of literature, including that of the modernist canon. This book will be of interest not only to McGahern scholars but also to those who contemplate the compromised legacies of literary modernism in late-twentieth century and contemporary writing.

Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781906165246

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"Considers avant-garde art, architecture, film, literature and music, from the early twentieth-century to the present, setting the arrival of modernism against the background of seaside tradition."--Back cover.

Author : Leah Culligan Flack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107108039

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A comparative study exploring the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing.

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1784784990

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Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But like many New York intellectuals, the essay was his characteristic form, accommodating his multifarious interests and expressing his protean, searching exuberant mind. This collection includes early essays from and on the radical '60s, on New York City, on literary figures from Kafka to Pamuk, and late essays on rock, hip hop, and gentrification. Concluding with his last essay, completed just before his death in 2013, this book is Berman's intellectual autobiography, tracing his career as a thinker through the way he read the 'signs in the street'.

Author : Andrew Thacker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 0748633499

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This innovative text examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

Author : J. G. Manning
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691202303

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"In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period." -- Publisher's description

Author : Chinghsin Wu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520299825

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This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist’s major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals.

Author : Peter Brooker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134329113

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This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.