Acrobatic Modernism From the Avant-Garde to Prehistory

Moving through a vast geographical, cultural, and artistic terrain and juxtaposing numerous modernist works, this volume explores the multiplicity of modernism and provides in-depth case studies, including of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the reception of jazz music in Europe, and the Cubist movement in the visual arts.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: Acrobatic Modernism, A Relentless Metabolism


• 1: The Ache of Modernism


• 2: Luminous Sores: The Pathic Receptacles of Modernism


• 3: Gathering Hay in a Thunderstorm


• 4: Make It New


• 5: Jazzbandism


• 6: Multiplied Man


• 7: The New Mythology


• 8: The Renaissance of the Archaic


• Afterword

About the author

Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia

Jed Rasula's scholarly work has largely been on modern art and literature, with seven books and two anthologies. He has also been involved in literary affairs, with three poetry collections, as editor of a poetry magazine, and serving on the editorial board of another. Before becoming a professor he worked in television and radio, as a graphic designer and bookseller.

Summary

Moving through a vast geographical, cultural, and artistic terrain and juxtaposing numerous modernist works, this volume explores the multiplicity of modernism and provides in-depth case studies, including of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the reception of jazz music in Europe, and the Cubist movement in the visual arts.

Additional text

Rasula (Univ. of Georgia) provides a fresh and invigorating account of modernism that resists definition or taxonomy and is instead dense with quotations, examples, and information. Rasula spans Europe, North America, Latin America, and East Asia, and traces affinities and influences among music, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. ... This book shines new light on a vast topic many have thought already illuminated.

Product details

• Authors: Jed Rasula, Jed (Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Profess Rasula, Rasula Jed
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2020
• EAN: 9780198833949
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883394-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, 20th Century, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Popular Music, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form