The difficulties of modernism

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The difficulties of modernism

Leonard Diepeveen

Routledge, 2003

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-307) and index

収録内容

  • Difficulty as fashion
  • Articulating anxiety : a theory of difficulty
  • Professional romanticism : defending difficulty
  • Difficulty, vigor, and pleasure
  • Simplicity and the modern canon
  • Conclusion : modern difficulty's inheritance

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内容説明

In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.

目次

Chapter One: Difficulty as FashonChapter Two: InherenceChapter Three: Professional Romanticism Defending DifficultyChapter Four: Difficulty, Vigor, and PleasureChapter Five: Simplicity, Purity, and the Modern CanonConclusion: Modern Difficulty's Inheritance

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