The Modern Movement

The Modern Movement

Author: Chris Baldick

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0198183100

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A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.


A Life Composed

A Life Composed

Author: André Schüller

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9783825863623

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"The modern literary critic", T. S. Eliot wrote in 1929, "must be an 'experimenter' outside of what you might at first consider his own province; [...] there is no literary problem which does not lead us irresistibly to larger problems." This book follows Eliot's principle and situates his literary and critical work in a wide context that reveals manifold links between aesthetics, ethics, politics and epistemology: the historical context of early-twentieth-century idealism, vitalism and pragmatism, especially the intensely political Bergsonian controversy, and the modern context of the philosophies of Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty. 'Knowledge', it argues, was verbalised in the modernist age, individualised into the act of 'knowing', an act with motives and goals, and thus introduced into the realm of ethics - a process central to twentieth-century thought. Eliot's poems especially, constructed as "a life composed", a literary lifetime linking composition and composure, ponder the virtue of precision, the sins of pride and "mental sloth", the temptation of prejudice and the need for conviction. Decidedly tentative, Eliot's poems solve the problem of morally significant literature. In a century of suspicion, they ask the crucial question of where one should start to rely.


Bulletin

Bulletin

Author: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13:

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All We Know

All We Know

Author: Lisa Cohen

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0374176493

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Chronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.