Bad Modernisms - Mao, Douglas / Walkowitz, Rebecca
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Extending the ?new modernist studies?, teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism?s commitment to badness: its emphasis on outrageous behaviour, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness.

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Extending the ?new modernist studies?, teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism?s commitment to badness: its emphasis on outrageous behaviour, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness.
Autorenporträt
Douglas Mao is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation and a coeditor of several books, including The Turn to Ethics.