The Difficulties of Modernism

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-94068-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diepeveen, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Difficulty as FashonChapter Two: InherenceChapter Three: Professional Romanticism Defending DifficultyChapter Four: Difficulty, Vigor, and PleasureChapter Five: Simplicity, Purity, and the Modern CanonConclusion: Modern Difficulty's Inheritance

Über Autor(innen)

Leonard Diepeveen