Rabate, Jean-Michael
1913: The Cradle of Modernism
This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.
- Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
- Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
- Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LIT004120
- Author(s)
- Rabate, Jean-Michael
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 272 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470691472
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405151177