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What Ever Happened to Modernism?

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Josipovici, Gabriel

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 030017800X
ISBN13: 9780300178005
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing - a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why.

Modernism, Josipovici suggests, is only superficially a reaction to industrialization or a revolution in diction and form; essentially, it is art coming to consciousness of its own limits and responsibilities. And its origins are to be sought not in 1850 or 1800, but in the early 1500s, with the crisis of society and perception that also led to the rise of Protestantism. With sophistication and persuasiveness, Josipovici charts some of Modernism's key stages, from Durer, Rabelais and Cervantes to the present, bringing together a rich array of artists, musicians and writers both familiar and unexpected - including Beckett, Borges, Friedrich, Cezanne, Stevens, Robbe-Grillet, Beethoven and Wordsworth. He concludes with a stinging attack on the current literary scene in Britain and America, which raises questions about not only national taste, but contemporary culture itself.

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