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Examines the emergence of modernism in the mid-nineteenth century and argues that modernism began as a transatlantic urban phenomenon with roots in mass culture.
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EDWARD S. CUTLER is Assistant Professor of English, Brigham Young University.
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Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-century Studies)
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Originalleinen. Condition: Sehr gut. X; 215 S., Abb. Sehr gutes Ex. - Introduction -- Part I: Modernity, Media, and the Era of High Capitalism -- Ephemeral Media: Aesthetic Modernity -- and Early High Capitalism -- News and the "New Spirit" in Art: Mass Media -- Roots of the Temporal Aesthetic -- Part II: Walter Benjamin's Nineteenth Century in Transatlantic Perspective -- Ruins of Type: On Some Motifs in Poe -- Passage through Modernity: Leaves of Grass and -- the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition of -- Conclusion: The Persistence of the Nineteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography. // In this book, I set out to dismantle this presumptive divide between the world of the everyday and the world of pure poetry in modern art. If the nineteenth-century mass print culture from which Ernst assembled his collages is emblematic of the social and aesthetic degradation against which modern art struggled for purity of expression, it must be remembered that these nineteenth-century forms are themselves multi-valent signs of urban modernity, even necessarily prior forms to much in the experimental arts of the early twentieth century. As I document in the following chapters, discourses of urban decay, the new, immediacy, and simultaneity are the initial cultural signatures not of the radical arts but of the mass print culture of the mid-nineteenth century. To the extent that avant-garde practice constitutes any sort of subversion of bourgeois culture, it is only so by degrees. The modernist pretense of innovation is itself historically derivative; the fetish of "the new" common to later modernism was itself constitutive of the emergent mass print forms of the nineteenth century. In contrast to the anti-bourgeois, modernist manifestoes of the early twentieth century, then, this book excavates the nineteenth-century idea of "the new" itself, as it first attains to mass expression. This recovery is a necessary first step if we are to adequately assess the modernist legacy apart from the polemical claims of its own manifestoes. (Introduction) ISBN 1584652594 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 973971