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A study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: THEORIZING LATE MODERNISM
1. Introduction: The Problem of Late Modernism
2. The End of Modernism: Rationalization, Spectacle, and Laughter
PART TWO: READING LATE MODERNISM
3. The Self Condemned: Wyndham Lewis
4· Beyond Rescue: Djuna Barnes
5· Improved Out of All Knowledge: Samuel Beckett
EPILOGUE
6. More or Less Silent: Mina Loy's Novel Inset
Notes
Index

Late Modernism

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/02/1999
      ISBN13: 9780520216488, 978-0520216488
      ISBN10: 0520216482
      Also in:
      History of art The arts: general topics Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments
      PART ONE: THEORIZING LATE MODERNISM
      1. Introduction: The Problem of Late Modernism
      2. The End of Modernism: Rationalization, Spectacle, and Laughter
      PART TWO: READING LATE MODERNISM
      3. The Self Condemned: Wyndham Lewis
      4· Beyond Rescue: Djuna Barnes
      5· Improved Out of All Knowledge: Samuel Beckett
      EPILOGUE
      6. More or Less Silent: Mina Loy's Novel Inset
      Notes
      Index

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