{"product_id":"1913-the-cradle-of-modernism-hardback-9781405151177","title":"1913; The Cradle of Modernism (Hardback) 9781405151177","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003e1913\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Cradle of Modernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e–Lawrence Rainey, University of York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405151177, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.526 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eArcades\u003c\/i\u003e project, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and its kaleidoscopic presentation of a world that troublingly-uncannily-intimates our own.\" (\u003ci\u003eMLR\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  “Rabate offers scholars and students a new portrait of cosmopolitan modernism to contemplate, making a study of globalization central to his understanding of the period’s literary and artistic endeavors.” (\u003ci\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2009)  \u003cp\u003e“This book’s clarity and specificity will reward even readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”\u003ci\u003e(Choice)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBroadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores Pound's \u003ci\u003ePersonae\u003c\/i\u003e next to Apollinaire's \u003ci\u003eAlcools\u003c\/i\u003e and Rilke's \u003ci\u003eSpanish Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, Edith Wharton's \u003ci\u003eThe Custom of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e next to Proust's \u003ci\u003eSwann's Way\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The New in the Arts 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Collective Agencies 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Everyday Life and the New Episteme 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Learning to be Modern in 1913 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Splintered Subject of Modernism 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Antagonisms 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 235\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52437774696728,"sku":"9781405151177","price":80.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405151177.jpg?v=1784939292","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/1913-the-cradle-of-modernism-hardback-9781405151177","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}