Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Sherry Vincent
This volume explores the idea of decadence through readings of major modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry's hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally.
1. The time of decadence; 2. The demonstrable decadence of modernist novels; 3. Ezra Pound, 1906–20; 4. T. S. Eliot, 1910–22.
Vincent Sherry is Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis. He is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Modernism and the author of several books in the field. Sherry is currently working on A Literary History of the European War of 1914–1918.
Date de parution : 01-2019
Ouvrage de 342 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
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Prix indicatif 28,98 €
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