Solid objects : modernism and the test of production

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Solid objects : modernism and the test of production

Douglas Mao

Princeton University Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This study argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, Douglas Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objects, seemed to partake of a utopian serenity beyond the reach of human ideological conflicts. Under a variety of historical pressures, Mao observes, these writers came to revere the making of such things and especially the crafting of the work of art, as the surest guarantee of meaning for an individual life. Yet they also found troubling contradictions here, since any kind of making, be it handicraft or mass production, could also be understood as a violation of the nonhuman world by an increasingly predatory and imperialistic subjectivity. If modernists began by embracing production as a test of meaning, then they frequently ended by testing production itself and finding it wanting. To make this case, Mao interweaves social and political history with readings in literature, the visual arts, philosophy and economics. He explores modernism's relat

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Virginia Woolf 26 The Test of Production 26 Even Trees, or Barns 43 Perpetual Combat 58 Battle Scars 78 CHAPTER TWO Wyndham Lewis 90 Kettles and the Common Life 90 Aesthetes and Apes 103 A Village of One's Own 115 Nonsensical Will 126 CHAPTER THREE Ezra Pound 140 Cobwebs and Connoisseurship 140 Laboring in the Tombs 150 The Register of Effort 166 Plus Always Techne 177 CHAPTER FOUR Wallace Stevens 194 Life's Extravagance 194 Imposing Forms 212 Notes and Nuances 226 Things Going As Far As They Can 240 NOTES 261 WORKS CITED 285 INDEX 297

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