Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

Informationen zum Autor John Xiros Cooper is Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of T.S. Eliot and the Politics of Voice: the Argument of The Waste Land (1987)! T.S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets (Cambridge! 1995)! and The Modern British Novel (1998). Klappentext A broad-ranging study exploring the relation between the modernist avant-garde and capitalist culture. Zusammenfassung For John Xiros Cooper! the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. In this 2004 book! he argues that in their personal relationships! gender roles and sexual contacts! the modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: The modernist avant-garde and the culture of market society; Part I. The Posthuman Scene: 1. Approaching modernism; 2. Ideology; 3. Permanent revolution; 4. Epistemology of the market; Part II. The Regime of Unrest: Four Precursors: 5. Bloody face; 6. A variegated daguerreotype; 7. The unnameable; 8. Childhood as resistance; Part III. The Margin is the Mainstream: 9. Artisanal production, Ulysses and the circulation of goods; 10. History and the post-psychological self in The Waste Land; 11. La bohème: Lewis, Stein, Barnes; 12. Bloomsbury nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Xiros Cooper, John Xiros (University of British Columbia Cooper, Cooper John Xiros, John Xiros Cooper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521120111
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12011-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literary theory