Modernism beyond the avant garde embodying experience
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-P…
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- Full title :Modernism beyond the avant garde embodying experience / Jason M. Baskin.
Summary
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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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Nov 2018).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico (x, 225 p.))
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108525961, 1108525962
- oclc:on1198320451
- Dewey Decimal:809/.9112
Table of Contents
Late modernism and the aesthetics of embodiment -- Elizabeth Bishop's rhythmic looking -- Ezra Pound's scraps of a self -- Ralph Ellison's invisible laughter -- Raymond Williams's collaborative labor.
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