Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine.
The literary magazine The New Age broughttogether a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the FirstWorld War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. Byclosely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's studyengages with the politic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781441127815 144112781X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The literary magazine The New Age broughttogether a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the FirstWorld War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. Byclosely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's studyengages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists tomodernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as anaesthetic phenomenon, but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against afigure usually excluded from. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 pages). |
| Series: | Historicizing modernism.
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| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |