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Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Ser.: High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of The 1920s by Joshua Kavaloski (2014, Hardcover)
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PublisherBoydell & Brewer, Incorporated
ISBN-101571139109
ISBN-139781571139108
eBay Product ID (ePID)201656613
Product Key Features
Number of Pages244 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHigh Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s
Publication Year2014
SubjectEuropean / German, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoshua Kavaloski
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesStudies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.8 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-023845
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number155
Volume NumberVol. 155
Dewey Decimal809/.9112
Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Problematics of High ModernismThe New Critics and the Social Function of Modern LiteratureLiterary Theory's Reception of High ModernismAesthetic Performativity in Franz Kafka's Das Schloss Discontinuity in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse The Enactment of Time in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg Chiasms in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Conclusion: The Dialectic of High ModernismAppendix: The Early, High, and Late Phases of ModernismBibliographyIndex
Synopsis"High modernism" is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested. For advocates who helped establish its place in the canon, the works of high modernism mark the culmination of literature as high art, while other critics see them as elitist, inaccessible, patriarchal, imperialist, reactionary. Despite this wide range of judgments, all take for granted that high modernism's main features are aestheticist: formal innovation and detachment from history, society, and politics. This book reconsiders that supposition, arguing that high modernist texts epitomize performativity, that is, that they transcend the quiescence of literary aesthetics and affect the extratextual world. Writers such as Kafka, Woolf, Mann, and Faulkner privilege form not as an end in itself but as a means to empower the sociopolitical function of literature. By exploring the performative role of literary works from the 1920s, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituates it within literary history. Joshua Kavaloski is Associate Professor and Director of the German Studies Program at Drew University., Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history. High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested. For advocates who helped establish its place in the canon, the works of high modernism mark the culmination of literature as high art, while other critics see them as elitist, inaccessible, patriarchal, imperialist, reactionary. Despite this wide range of judgments, all take for granted that high modernism's main features are aestheticist: formal innovation and detachment from history, society, and politics. This book reconsiders that supposition, arguing that high modernist texts epitomize performativity, that is, that they transcend the quiescence of literary aesthetics and affect the extratextual world. Writers such as Kafka, Woolf, Mann, and Faulkner privilege form not as an end in itself but as a means to empower the sociopolitical function of literature. By exploring the performative role of literary works fromthe 1920s, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituates it within literary history. Joshua Kavaloski is Associate Professor and Director of the German Studies Program at Drew University., Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history.
LC Classification NumberPN56.M54K38 2014
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