The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics

by Lesley Higgins

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Cult of ugliness, Ezra Pounds phrase, powerfully summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T. E. Hulme;the self-styled "Men of 1914";responded to the "horrid or sordid or disgusting" conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practice. Only the representation of "ugliness," they protested, would produce the new, truly "beautiful" work of art. They dissociated the beautiful...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312240376

ISBN13:9780312240370

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.07 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 7.5"

Related Subjects

Aesthetics Criticism & Theory Gender Studies History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Modernism Movements & Periods

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