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Author: Charles Ferrall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0521793459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFerrall offers insights into the relation between modernist aesthetics, technology and politics.
Author: Jeffrey Herf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-05-31
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521338332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.
Author: Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher:
Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1108426360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900-1920.
Author: Edward S. Cutler
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781584652717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative look at the process and development of nineteenth-century modernism.
Author: Dean Krouk
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0295742305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the occupation of Norway in World War II, and those of the anti-fascist novelist and critic Sigurd Hoel, Dean Krouk reveals key aspects of the modernist literary imagination in Norway. In their writings, Hamsun, Sveen, and Jacobsen expressed their discontent with twentieth-century European modernity, which they perceived as overly rationalized or nihilistic. Krouk explains how fascism offered these writers a seductive utopian vision that intersected with the countercultural and avant-garde aspects of their literary works, while Hoel’s critical analysis of Nazism extended to a questioning of all patriarchal forms of authority. Krouk’s readings of their works serve as a timely reminder to us all of the dangers of fascism.
Author: John Whittier-Ferguson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-27
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1316061612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging study of the late poetry and prose of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Wyndham Lewis brings together works from the 1930s and 1940s - writings composed by authors self-consciously entering middle to old age and living through years when civilization seemed intent on tearing itself to pieces for the second time in their adult lives. Profoundly revising their earlier work, these artists asked how their writing might prove significant in a time that Woolf described, in a diary entry from 1938, as '1914 but without even the illusion of 1914. All slipping consciously into a pit'. This late modern writing explores mortality, the frailties of culture, and the potential consolations and culpabilities of aesthetic form. Such writing is at times horrifying and objectionable and at others deeply moving, different from the earlier works which first won these writers their fame.
Author: Barbara Will
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0231152639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.
Author: Maren Tova Linett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-09-23
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 052151505X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough overview of the main genres, important issues, and key figures in women's modernism during the years 1890-1945.
Author: Ian Afflerbach
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1421440903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book maps the rise of a modern liberal culture in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. It shows how modern fiction writers responded to central concerns in liberal political thought, such as corporate ownership, reproductive rights, colorblind law, and presidential character"--
Author: Morag Shiach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-26
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521834599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. There is a critical tradition in literary and historical studies that sees the impact of modernity on human labour in terms of intensification and alienation. Shiach, however, explores a series of efforts to articulate the relations between labour and selfhood within modernism. Through readings of Sylvia Pankhurst and D. H. Lawrence, Shiach shows how labour underpins the political and textual innovations of the period. This study will be of interest to literary and cultural scholars alike.
