Jean-Michel Rabate

1913 (eBook, PDF)

The Cradle of Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470691472
• Artikelnr.: 38188980

Autorenporträt

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading figure among the generation of French theorists taught by Derrida and by Lacan. His books include the Blackwell Manifesto volume The Future of Theory (2002), The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001), and Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime (2006). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002), Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), and the Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization 1
1 The New in the Arts 18
2 Collective Agencies 46
3 Everyday Life and the New Episteme 72
4 Learning to be Modern in 1913 96
5 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other 118
6 The Splintered Subject of Modernism 141
7 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian
Modernism 164
8 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia 185
Conclusion: Antagonisms 208
Notes 217
Index 235

Rezensionen

"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind TheodorAdorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of'occult adjacentism'. Adorno, of course, meant this as adamning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcadesproject, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and itskaleidoscopic presentation of a world thattroublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April2009)

"Rabate offers scholars and students a new portrait ofcosmopolitan modernism to contemplate, making a study ofglobalization central to his understanding of the period'sliterary and artistic endeavors." (The Review of EnglishStudies, June 2009)

"This book's clarity and specificity will rewardeven readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended."(Choice)"With this book Jean-Michel Rabaté, one of the foremostscholars of literary modernism, serves up a sumptuous intellectualfeast. Examining the currents of thought and creative activity thatchurn through a single year, the 1913 of his title, he achieves anepic overview of early modernism. Music, painting, technology,science, philosophy, mathematics, literature, sexuality--nothingescapes his probing gaze. Telling anecdotes, insightful criticism,and philosophical rigour are combined to produce a work that isboth a pleasure to read and a major scholarly synthesis."
-Lawrence Rainey, University of York