{"product_id":"21stcentury-modernism-9780631219705","title":"21stCentury Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perloff's newest work offers refreshingly frank, controversial, and even inspiring ideas ... Perloff's readings refuse to reaffirm orthodoxies, presenting innovative perspectives on poets, early modernism and its relation to the current scene. Far from being a reactionary call to return to the past, Perloff's work envisions a bold continuation of modernism's earlier revolutionary impulses. \u003ci\u003e21st-Century Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e is vital and necessary reading for anyone interested in the history of modern poetry and where it is going.\" PN Review \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book commands respect, [...], not only for its energy and the precision of its readings, but for its refusal to surrender powers of arbitration from the artist to the teacher or theorist.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The heart of [Perloff's] book is her enthusiasm - a well-researched and carefully argued enthusiasm\" \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Plates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Avant-Garde Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Gertrude Stein’s Differential Syntx.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Khlebnikov’s Soundscapes: Letter, Number, and the Poetics of Zaum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 “Modernism” at the Millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403433288023,"sku":"9780631219705","price":31.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631219705.jpg?v=1730483460","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/21stcentury-modernism-9780631219705","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}