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Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text

Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text

Lehan, Richard

Paperback

Series: Southern Messenger Poets

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807143677
ISBN13: 9780807143674
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 9 2012
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition, but the Nietzschean theory that reality depends on perception connected them all. This modernist movement reached a distinguished level of achievement with novelists Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce, but a succession of counterinfluences transformed it after World War II, when elitism and a desire for a homogeneous culture gave way to diversity and elements of mass culture. In Literary Modernism and Beyond, Richard Lehan tracks the evolution of the movement from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its recent incarnations.

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