| Description |
266 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Modern imagination: Romantic imagination -- Organic, the orchidaceous, the intellectualized -- Imagination is personal -- pt. 2. Obsessive situation: Moderns and contemporaries -- Modern as vision of the whole -- Modern necessity -- Poetic moderns and prose contemporaries -- A short history of the pers. pron. 1st sing. nom. -- World of mechanical metamorphosis -- pt. 3. Non-recognizers, recognizers, and over-recognizers: Non-recognizers -- Recognizers -- Dialogue with a recognizer -- Reversal of the modern: Tradition-bound literature and traditionless painting -- Hatred and nostalgia in death's dream kingdom -- Neo-traditionalists -- Nostalgic fallacy -- Poet-critics and critic-poets -- Modern and the now. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern. |
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