Joshua Kavaloski

High Modernism

Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781571139108
• ISBN-10: 1571139109
• Artikelnr.: 40813548

Autorenporträt

Joshua Kavaloski

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Problematics of High Modernism The New Critics and the
Social Function of Modern Literature Literary Theory's Reception of High
Modernism Aesthetic Performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss
Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse The Enactment of Time
in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I Lay
Dying Conclusion: The Dialectic of High Modernism Appendix: The Early,
High, and Late Phases of Modernism Bibliography Index