Jason M. Baskin

Modernism Beyond the Avant-Garde (eBook, ePUB)

Embodying Experience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Critics have traditionally maintained that capitalism's resurgence after the Second World War precipitated the transition from modernism to postmodernism. This revisionist account shows that modernism does not simply decline. By foregrounding phenomenological conceptions of bodily experience, Jason M. Baskin reveals modernism's ongoing vitality. Key postwar writers, critics and philosophers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Ralph Ellison and Raymond Williams, as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno, developed an aesthetics of embodiment that adapted modernism to a new postwar landscape. Working across differences of race, gender, national and intellectual tradition, genre and form, Baskin contends that these authors used ordinary bodily experiences, such as perception, memory and laughter, to imagine modes of common being and purpose that were otherwise unavailable in a postwar society dominated by liberal capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108530262
• Artikelnr.: 54671197

Autorenporträt

Jason M. Baskin is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, where he specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, modernism and critical theory. He has published essays and book reviews in Cultural Critique, Mediations, Postmodern Culture, Boston Review, Harvard Review and the Washington Post, as well as the edited collections Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture (2017) and Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: late modernism and the aesthetics of embodiment
1. Elizabeth Bishop's rhythmic looking
2. Ezra Pound's scraps of a self
3. Ralph Ellison's invisible laughter
4. Raymond Williams's collaborative labor
Conclusion
Notes
Index.