Modernism and the reinvention of decadence
Vincent B. Sherry
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
| Omfang | xi, 333 sider;
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| Opplysninger | Innhold: Introduction: The codes of decadence: modernism and its discontents: 1. Displacements 2. Edmund Wilson, or Walter Benjamin 3. A Queerer Tense 4. “Decadence,” “Modernism”; Chapter 1. The time of decadence: 1. Spotted Time 2. Baudelaire, Marx, Poe 3. Afterward: A Poetics 4. The Case of Symons 5. Yeats’s Prosaic Turn; Inter-Chapter: Imagism: The Cultivation of Decay and the Prerogatives of Modernism: The Novelty of Decline. Modernity against Itself; Chapter 2. The demonstrable decadence of modernist novels: 1. Henry James 2. Conrad and Chesterton 3. The Political Chronicles of “Decadence” 4. D. H. Lawrence 5. The Middle Parts of Modernism: Manning and West – Wartime; Inter-Chapter: Imagism: Restoring Decadence. Imagistes, and Other Greeks. The Imagist Moment; Chapter 3. Ezra Pound, 1906-20: 1. Remnants of Decadence 2. Wartime 3. “Decadence” in the Major Poems of Postwar Modernism; Inter-Chapter: Reforming Decadence: Late Romanticism, Modernism, and the Politics of Literary History: Political Prepositioning. Lewis. Eliot and Pound; Chapter 4. T. S. Eliot, 1910-22: 1. The Singing Schools of Decadence 2. War and Empire 3. Four-Square Decadence: A Prosody for Modernism 4. The Waste Land: Dracula’s Shadow, and the Shadow Language of Decadence; Afterword: Barnes and Beckett, Petropi of the twilight.. - "In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry's hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally"--
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| ISBN | 9781107079328 (hardback)
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