Jean-Michel Rabaté

Broschiertes Buch

1913

The Cradle of Modernism

Beschreibung

This innovative volume puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. This significant year was marked by many critical events and happenings, such as the first international recognition of non-Western writers when the Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore; it was also the last year of peace before the eruption of the First World War. 1913 examines the wide range of diverse artistic, literary, and political endeavours undertaken in this one year. For example, while Yeats and Pound were collaborating at Stone Cottage and discovering Japanese culture, Joyce was completing his autobiographical novel in Trieste, Du Bois was creating his Ethiopian pageant in New York, and Paris was resounding with the scandal caused by Stravinsky's contested Rite of Spring. The book also explores and compares Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy with Pound's Personae, and Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country with Proust's Swann's Way. Engaging and insightful, this volume will encourage the reader to appreciate the breadth of activity that took place in this pivotal year, and its lasting influence.

Autor

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading figure among the generation of French theorists taught by Derrida and by Lacan. His books include the Blackwell Manifesto volume The Future of Theory (2002), The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001), and Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime (2006). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002), Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), and the Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies (2004).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781405161923
• ISBN-10: 1405161922
• Artikelnr.: 22759329

Rezensionen

"While reading Rabatk's book I constantly had in mind TheodorAdorno's remark to Walter Benjamin about the latter's habit of'occult adjacentism'. Adorno, of course, meant this as adamning criticism of his friend's method in the Arcadesproject, but it beautifully describes the effect of 1913 and itskaleidoscopic presentation of a world thattroublingly-uncannily-intimates our own." (MLR, April2009)

"With this book Jean-Michel Rabaté, one of the foremostscholars of literary modernism, serves up a sumptuous intellectualfeast. Examining the currents of thought and creative activity thatchurn through a single year, the 1913 of his title, he achieves anepic overview of early modernism. Music, painting, technology,science, philosophy, mathematics, literature, sexuality--nothingescapes his probing gaze. Telling anecdotes, insightful criticism,and philosophical rigour are combined to produce a work that isboth a pleasure to read and a major scholarly synthesis."
Lawrence Rainey, University of York

"This book's clarity and specificity will rewardeven readers familiar with his topics. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended."
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