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High Modernism : Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s
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ISBN: 1571139109 1571138870 1571135839 132220831X Year: 2014 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

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High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested. For advocates who helped establish its place in the canon, the works of high modernism mark the culmination of literature as high art, while other critics see them as elitist, inaccessible, patriarchal, imperialist, reactionary. Despite this wide range of judgments, all take for granted that high modernism's main features are aestheticist: formal innovation and detachment from history, society, and politics. This book reconsiders that supposition, arguing that high modernist texts epitomize performativity, that is, that they transcend the quiescence of literary aesthetics and affect the extratextual world. Writers such as Kafka, Woolf, Mann, and Faulkner privilege form not as an end in itself but as a means to empower the sociopolitical function of literature. By exploring the performative role of literary works fromthe 1920s, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituates it within literary history. Joshua Kavaloski is Associate Professor and Director of the German Studies Program at Drew University.


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The Differentiation of Modernism : Postwar German Media Arts
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ISBN: 1571138838 1571135723 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or "fraying of boundaries," between the arts. TheDifferentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-1980): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapteron Adorno's theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the Hörspiel or radio play to electronic music. In the second part, on film music, a chapter on Adorno and Eisler's Composing for the Film sets the parameters for chapters on the film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1957) and on the music films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The third part examines the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and its relationship to radio, abstract painting, recording technology, and theatrical happenings. The book's central notion of the "differentiation of culture" suggests that late modernism, unlike high modernism, accepted thecontingency of modern mass-media driven society and sought to find new forms for it. Larson Powell is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature (Camden House, 2008).


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In the Kingdom of Shoes : Bata, Zlín, Globalization, 1894-1945
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ISBN: 1487534477 1487534469 1487506589 1487524447 Year: 2021 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press,

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"One of the world's largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia, has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, it Americanized its production model while also trying to Americanize its workforce. In the chaos of postwar Czechoslovakia, it promised a technocratic form of governance. During the Roaring Twenties, Bata became synonymous with rationalization across Europe and thus a flashpoint for a continent-wide debate. In the Great Depression, Bata globalized when others contracted, and in doing so, became the first shoe company to unlock the potential of globalization. As Bata expanded worldwide, it became an example of corporate national indifference, where company personnel were trained to be able to slip into and out of national identifications with ease. Such indifference, however, was seriously challenged by the geopolitical crisis of the 1930s. Bata management turned nationalist, even fascist, on the cusp of the Second World War."--


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Screening Nature and Nation : The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
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ISBN: 1771993367 Year: 2022 Publisher: Athabasca, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University,

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The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. Author Michael Clemens describes how films produced by the NFB broadened the ecological imagination of Canadians over time and ultimately inspired an environmental movement.


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The cosmic time of empire : modern Britain and world literature
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ISBN: 1283277441 9786613277442 0520948157 9780520948150 9781283277440 9780520260993 0520260996 6613277444 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in relation to Greenwich, England, writers began experimenting with new ways of representing human temporality. Barrows finds this experimentation in works as varied as Victorian adventure novels, high modernist texts, and South Asian novels-including the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad. Demonstrating the investment of modernist writing in the problems of geopolitics and in the public discourse of time, Barrows argues that it is possible, and productive, to rethink the politics of modernism through the politics of time.


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Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
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ISBN: 9780691241951 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. Here Jensen explores the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to its dominance in the international art world by the early 1900s. He emphasizes the role of the emerging dealer/gallery market and of modernist art historiographies in evaluating modern art and legitimizing it through the formation of a canon of modernist masters. In describing the canon-building of modern dealerships, Jensen considers the new "ideological dealer" and explores the commercial construction of artistic identity through such rhetorical concepts as temperament and "independent art" and through such institutional structures as the retrospective. His inquiries into the fate of the juste milieu, a group of dissidents who saw themselves as "true heirs" of Impressionism, and his look at a new form of art history emerging in Germany further expose a linear, dealer- oriented history of modernist art constructed by or through the modernists themselves.

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Art --- Art and design. --- Art criticism. --- Arts --- Criticism --- Design and art --- Design --- Marketing. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Academic art. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Aestheticism. --- Alfred Rethel. --- Alfred Sisley. --- Ambroise Vollard. --- Art Nouveau. --- Art for art's sake. --- Art museum. --- Arts and Crafts movement. --- Auguste Rodin. --- Avant-garde. --- Barbizon school. --- Berlin Secession. --- Berthe Weill. --- Camille Pissarro. --- Central Europe. --- Champfleury. --- Class action. --- Classicism. --- Contemporary art. --- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. --- Decadent movement. --- Der Blaue Reiter. --- Descriptive Catalogue (1809). --- Dreyfus affair. --- Edvard Munch. --- Frantz Jourdain. --- French art. --- Georges Seurat. --- Georges de La Tour. --- German Romanticism. --- German art. --- German idealism. --- Gustave Caillebotte. --- Gustave Courbet. --- Hans Makart. --- Harry Graf Kessler. --- Heinrich von Treitschke. --- Henri Fantin-Latour. --- Henri Matisse. --- Henry van de Velde. --- High modernism. --- Impressionism. --- International Style (architecture). --- Italian Renaissance painting. --- J. Alden Weir. --- Japonism. --- Juste milieu. --- L'Histoire. --- La Plume. --- La Revue Blanche. --- Le Figaro. --- Les Baigneuses (Gleizes). --- Louis Comfort Tiffany. --- Maison de l'Art Nouveau. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Maximilien Luce. --- Mercure de France. --- Modern art. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Munich Secession. --- Napoleon III. --- Nazism. --- Neo-impressionism. --- Neoclassical architecture. --- Neoclassicism. --- Orientalism. --- Palais de l'Industrie. --- Paul Delaroche. --- Paul Durand-Ruel. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Pierre-Auguste Renoir. --- Political Liberalism. --- Populism. --- Positioning (marketing). --- Post-Impressionism. --- Postmodernism. --- Renaissance art. --- Rococo. --- Romanticism. --- Salon d'Automne. --- Salon de la Rose + Croix. --- Salon des Cent. --- Siegfried Bing. --- Soziologie. --- The Barque of Dante. --- The Impressionists (BBC drama). --- The Realist. --- Thomas Couture. --- Trade fair. --- Use tax. --- Vienna Secession. --- Vittoria Colonna. --- William-Adolphe Bouguereau. --- École des Beaux-Arts. --- Émile Zola.

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