Bibliograph

Modernism and the ideology of history, literature, politics, and the past, Louise Blakeney Williams

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Modernism and the ideology of history, literature, politics, and the past, Louise Blakeney Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-257) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Modernism and the ideology of history

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

57425740

Responsibility statement

Louise Blakeney Williams

Sub title

literature, politics, and the past

Summary

Louise Williams explores the cyclical nature of historical memory in the work of five writers: Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence. Modernists, Williams argues, changed their attitude to history as a result of important conflicts within the period. This study will be essential reading for anyone interested in modernist writing

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- "Immaterial pleasure houses": the initial aesthetic dilemma -- "A more dream-heavy hour": medievalist and progressive beginnings -- "Pedantry and hysteria": contemporary political problems -- "A certain discipline": radical conservative solutions -- "A particularly lively wheel": cyclic views emerge -- "Our own image": the example of Asian and non-Western cultures -- In "the grip of the ... vortex": the proof of post-impressionist art -- The "cycle dance": cyclic history arrives -- "The nightmare" and beyond: the First World War and mature cyclic theories

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