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High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s, Joshua Kavaloski
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- Summary
- High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested. For advocates who helped establish its place in the canon, the works of high modernism mark the culmination of literature as high art, while other critics see them as elitist, inaccessible, patriarchal, imperialist, reactionary. Despite this wide range of judgments, all take for granted that high modernism's main features are aestheticist: formal innovation and detachment from history, society, and politics. This book reconsiders that supposition, arguing that high modernist texts epitomize performativity, that is, that they transcend the quiescence of literary aesthetics and affect the extratextual world. Writers such as Kafka, Woolf, Mann, and Faulkner privilege form not as an end in itself but as a means to empower the sociopolitical function of literature. By exploring the performative role of literary works fromthe 1920s, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituates it within literary history. Joshua Kavaloski is Associate Professor and Director of the German Studies Program at Drew University
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2018)
- Contents
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- Introduction: The problematics of high modernism
- The new critics and the social function of modern literature
- Literary theory's reception of high modernism
- Aesthetic performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss
- Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse
- The enactment of time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg
- Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I lay dying
- Conclusion: The dialectic of high modernism
- Appendix: The early, high, and late phases of modernism
- Isbn
- 9781571138873
- Label
- High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s
- Title
- High Modernism
- Title remainder
- Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Kavaloski
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested. For advocates who helped establish its place in the canon, the works of high modernism mark the culmination of literature as high art, while other critics see them as elitist, inaccessible, patriarchal, imperialist, reactionary. Despite this wide range of judgments, all take for granted that high modernism's main features are aestheticist: formal innovation and detachment from history, society, and politics. This book reconsiders that supposition, arguing that high modernist texts epitomize performativity, that is, that they transcend the quiescence of literary aesthetics and affect the extratextual world. Writers such as Kafka, Woolf, Mann, and Faulkner privilege form not as an end in itself but as a means to empower the sociopolitical function of literature. By exploring the performative role of literary works fromthe 1920s, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituates it within literary history. Joshua Kavaloski is Associate Professor and Director of the German Studies Program at Drew University
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- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kavaloski, Joshua
- Dewey number
- 809/.9112
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN56.M54
- LC item number
- K38 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Modernism (Literature)
- Aesthetics in literature
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- High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s, Joshua Kavaloski
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- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2018)
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- online resource
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- Contents
- Introduction: The problematics of high modernism -- The new critics and the social function of modern literature -- Literary theory's reception of high modernism -- Aesthetic performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss -- Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- The enactment of time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg -- Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Conclusion: The dialectic of high modernism -- Appendix: The early, high, and late phases of modernism
- Control code
- CR9781571138873
- Extent
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781571138873
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
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- remote
- Label
- High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s, Joshua Kavaloski
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Apr 2018)
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The problematics of high modernism -- The new critics and the social function of modern literature -- Literary theory's reception of high modernism -- Aesthetic performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss -- Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- The enactment of time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg -- Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Conclusion: The dialectic of high modernism -- Appendix: The early, high, and late phases of modernism
- Control code
- CR9781571138873
- Extent
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781571138873
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
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