John Xiros Cooper

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511227585
• Artikelnr.: 38190765

Autorenporträt

John Xiros Cooper is Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of T.S. Eliot and the Politics of Voice: the Argument of The Waste Land (1987), T.S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets (Cambridge, 1995), and The Modern British Novel (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The modernist avant-garde and the culture of market society
Part I. The Posthuman Scene: 1. Approaching modernism
2. Ideology
3. Permanent revolution
4. Epistemology of the market
Part II. The Regime of Unrest: Four Precursors: 5. Bloody face
6. A variegated daguerreotype
7. The unnameable
8. Childhood as resistance
Part III. The Margin is the Mainstream: 9. Artisanal production, Ulysses and the circulation of goods
10. History and the post-psychological self in The Waste Land
11. La bohème: Lewis, Stein, Barnes
12. Bloomsbury nation
Notes
Bibliography
Index.