The Persistence of Modernism

by Madelyn Detloff

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Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we explain its continued persistence? Madelyn Detloff argues for modernism's relevance to our own age, a time of escalating loss, retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired modernist cultural production - xenophobic nationalism and imperial hubris - are still with us. Writers such as Virginia Woolf...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521896428

ISBN13:9780521896429

Release Date:February 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:226 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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