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1913

The Cradle of Modernism

JEAN-MICHEL RABATE author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:10th Jul '07

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This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.

  • Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
  • Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
  • Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way
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"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind Theodor Adorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of 'occult adjacentism'.  Adorno, of course, meant this as a damning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcades project, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and its kaleidoscopic presentation of a world that troublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April 2009)

"With this book Jean-Michel Rabaté, one of the foremost scholars of literary modernism, serves up a sumptuous intellectual feast. Examining the currents of thought and creative activity that churn through a single year, the 1913 of his title, he achieves an epic overview of early modernism. Music, painting, technology, science, philosophy, mathematics, literature, sexuality--nothing escapes his probing gaze. Telling anecdotes, insightful criticism, and philosophical rigour are combined to produce a work that is both a pleasure to read and a major scholarly synthesis."
Lawrence Rainey, University of York

“This book’s clarity and specificity will reward even readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”
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ISBN: 9781405161923

Dimensions: 230mm x 154mm x 18mm

Weight: 381g

256 pages