Louise Blakeney Williams

Modernism and the Ideology of History

Literature, Politics, and the Past

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the cyclical nature of historical memory in Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120937
• ISBN-10: 0521120934
• Artikelnr.: 27065545

Autorenporträt

Louise Blakeney Williams is Assistant Professor of British and Intellectual History at Central Connecticut State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. 'Immaterial pleasure houses': the initial aesthetic dilemma
2. 'A more dream-heavy hour': medievalist and progressive beginnings
3. 'Pedantry and hysteria': contemporary political problems
4. 'A certain discipline': radical conservative solutions
5. 'A particularly lively wheel': cyclic views emerge
6. 'Our own image': the example of Asian and non-Western cultures
7. In 'the grip of the ... vortex': the proof of Post-Impressionist art
8. The 'cycle dance': cyclic history arrives
9. 'The nightmare' and beyond: World War I and mature cyclic theories
Conclusion
Notes
Index.