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100			_aLevenson, Michael H.
245			_aA genealogy of modernism : a study of English literary doctrine
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c1986 _aCambridge :
300			_axiii, 250 p. ; _bill., _c21 cm
365			_b37.99 _c£ _d110.10
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aA Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of the twentieth-century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English culture. Michael Levenson analyses that complex process by following the successive phases of a literary movement - Impressionist, Imagist, Vorticist, Classicist - as it attempted to formulate the principles on which a new aesthetic might be founded. The emphasis here falls on the ideology of modernism, but throughout the book the ideological question is tied on the one hand to specific literary works and on the other to general movements in philosophy and the fine arts. The major figures under discussion, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Elliot, are placed in relation to thinkers who have been largely neglected in the history of modernism: Max Stirner, Wilhelm Worringer, Pierre Lasserre, Allen Upward, and Hilaire Belloc. Levenson thus situates the emergence of a modernist aesthetic within the context of literary theory, literary practice, and cultural history.
650			_aModernism
650			_aUnited States
650			_aAmerican literature
650			_aLiterary Criticism
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