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Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine

Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine Contemporary literature

Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine

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The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's study engages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy.   By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against a figure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson examines further a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views. This reinterpretation of modernism provides a historicised understanding of the politicised hopes of artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal. Considering modernist writers' relationship between politics,philosophy and aesthetics in the context of total war Jackson encourages new cultural-historical definitions of modernism. In addition this study provides the first close analysis of cultural contributions from a leading wartime Little Magazine, tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in its pages.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2012-07-12
Publication Date:
2012-07-12
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1441180087
ISBN13:
9781441180087
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Weight:
461 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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