1913: The Cradle of Modernism

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5117-7

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256 pages

July 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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An innovative study written by the world-renowned theorist, Jean-Michel Rabate
Uses the year 1913 as a framework to illustrate the presence of modernism before World War I
Puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context
Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way