Genealogy of Modernism - A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922

List of contents

Part I. Progenitors: 1. Consciousness: The modernist narrator on the Victorian sailing ship: Arnold, Huxley, Pater: toward a small world and a large self; 2. Authority: Arnold and Babbitt: the best self and the new humanism: Conrad: physis and psyche; Part II. Provocation, 1908-1914: 3. Dating Hulme/parsing modernism; 4. Ford: the passing of great figures: The Victorian sage in retirement: Little moderns; 5. Egoists and imagists: The Ego and His Own: Pound/Upward: Poets rampant; 6. Hulme: the progress of reaction: The classical phase: Husserl, Frege, Moore: The making of an anti-humanist; 7. Symbol, impression, image, vortex: The problem with Imagism: Impressionism and the prose tradition: In search of a primary pigment; Part III. Conclusion: 8. The war among the moderns: The avant-garde in retreat: Pound and Eliot, a counter-current; 9. The Waste Land: Speakers and ghosts: The theory of points of view: The painful task of unifying: Myth, tradition, classicism; Epilogue. The editor and the loathed disturber.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Levenson, Michael H. Levenson, Levenson Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.1986
• EAN: 9780521338004
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33800-4
• No. of pages: 268
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies