Tag: modernism
Postmodern Genres
Review of Weimar On the Pacific
German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism.
Erhard Bahr. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Pre...
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The Search for “Prime Words”: Pound, Duchamp and the Nominalist Ethos
Paideuma, 32, 1-3 (2003), 205-28. Also in Ezra Pound and Referentiality (Paris; Presses de l'UniversitÈ de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003): 191-210.
but Wanjin... Read More
Victorian Modernism
Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
Jessica R. Feldman. Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 261pp. $60.00.
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Hugh Kenner and the Invention of Modernism
“Art,” quips Hugh Kenner in A Homemade World (1975) “lifts the saying out of the zone of things said.”1 The reference is to William Carlos Williams’s poems, such as “The Red Wheelbarrow,... Read More
Modernism Now
The great revolution of the early twentieth century designated by the term Modernism—a term that refers not only to a period (roughly 1900-1930) but to an ethos—remains, at... Read More
The Aura of Modernism
published in Modernist Cultures, Vol. 1: Issue 1, Spring 2005.
In a discussion of Walter Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,” Andreas Hu... Read More