TY - BOOK ID - 1713042 TI - Modernism and the culture of market society PY - 2004 SN - 9780521834865 0521834864 9780511485374 9780521120111 0511227582 9780511227585 0511231679 9780511231674 0511229283 9780511229282 0511230125 9780511230127 0511230907 9780511230905 0511485379 1280703083 9781280703089 1107161134 9781107161139 0511316801 9780511316807 052112011X PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Thematology KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Capitalism and literature KW - American literature KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature. KW - Economics in literature. KW - Aesthetics KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Literature and capitalism KW - Literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Arts and Humanities KW - LITTERATURE ANGLAISE KW - MODERNISME (LITTERATURE) KW - CAPITALISME ET LITTERATURE KW - LITTERATURE AMERICAINE KW - AVANT-GARDE (ESTHETIQUE) KW - CONSOMMATION (ECONOMIE POLITIQUE) DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - ECONOMIE POLITIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - 20E SIECLE KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE KW - GRANDE-BRETAGNE KW - ETATS-UNIS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1713042 AB - Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes. ER -