Literary Modernism and Beyond

by Lehan, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780807143674
• ISBN10: 0807143677
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-09
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In Literary Modernism and Beyond, Richard Lehan tracks the evolution of modernism from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its recent incarnations. In his wide-ranging study, Lehan demonstrates how and why the "originary vision" of modernism changed radically after it gained prominence. With critical discussions on a variety of modernist writers, intellectuals, and artists and their works-including Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, André Gide, Franz Kafka, Zora Neale Hurston, Ian Fleming, and J. K. Rowling-Lehan examines the large-scale changes that came about as critical authority moved from one generation to another. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Richard Lehan is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a Fulbright award, he is the author of nine other books, including The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History and Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Modernisms
Modernism and Its Transformations	p. 3
"Perspectivism"	p. 21
The Modernist Experience	p. 34
Early Modernism
The Inward Turn	p. 47
Decadence/Aestheticism	p. 61
The Realms of the Text
Myth	p. 75
Symbol	p. 91
Structure	p. 100
Time and Space
Time/History	p. 119
Spatial Form	p. 145
From Romance to Nihilism
From Romance to Realism	p. 161
Authenticity in a Counterfeit Culture	p. 178
Neorealism and Beyond	p. 193
Postmodernism and Mass Culture
Gender and Race	p. 207
Mass Culture	p. 215
Alone in the Crowd	p. 236
Postmodernism	p. 248
Coda	p. 263
Appendixes
A Chronology of Literary Modernism	p. 269
From Empire to War: A Retrospective of Literary Modernism	p. 275
Bibliographical Essay	p. 284
Notes	p. 303
Selected Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 321
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