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1913: The Cradle of Modernism

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6192-3
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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

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