Reluctant modernists : Aldous Huxley and some contemporaries : a collection of essays
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Reluctant modernists : Aldous Huxley and some contemporaries : a collection of essays
（Human potentialities : studies in Aldous Huxley & contemporary culture : Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenössischer Kultur, Bd. 4）
Lit, c2002
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays collected here deal with modernist writers who, on the whole, felt 'reluctant' about their modernist status because they believed that it was just as important to look backward as it was to look forward. Indeed, for most of them looking backward was more important because it was only through the past that one could understand one's proper place in the present and in the future. That is why in Huxley's Brave New World it is the rejection of the past in the future - and by implication in the present - that makes its satire so penetrating. Modernism, in other words, means for these writers not a radical break with the past but a continuing search for what still connects them (and us) vitally with it.
by "Nielsen BookData"