Modernism: A Very Short Introduction - Brossura

Butler, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0192804413 ISBN 13: 9780192804419

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2010

Riassunto

Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism.

In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life.

Butler considers several aspects of modernism including some modernist works; movements and notions of the avant garde; and the idea of 'progress' in art. Butler looks at modernist ideas of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and political definitions of modernism as a whole.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Professor Christopher Butler is Professor of English Language and Literature at Christ Church College, University Oxford. His many publications include Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900-1916 (OUP, 1994), Interpretation, Deconstruction, and Ideology (OUP, 1984), and Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2002).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0192804413
• ISBN 13: 9780192804419
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144
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