1913: The Cradle of ModernismISBN: 978-1-4051-6192-3
Paperback
256 pages
November 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