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Beginning modernism MANCHESTER 1824 Manchester University Press Beginnings Series editors: Peter Barry and Helen Carr ‘Beginnings’ is a series of books designed to give practical help to students beginning to tackle recent developments in English, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. The books in the series • demonstrate and encourage a questioning engagement with the new; • give essential information about the context and history of each topic covered; • show how to develop a practice which is up to date and informed by theory. Each book focuses uncompromisingly upon the needs of its readers, who have the right to expect lucidity and clarity to be the distinctive feature of a book which includes the word ‘beginning’ in its title. Each aims to lay a firm foundation of well-understood initial principles as a basis for further study and is committed to explaining new aspects of the discipline without over-simplification, but in a manner appropriate to the needs of beginners. Each book, finally, aims to be both an introduction and a contribution to the topic area it discusses. Also in the series Beginning theory (2nd edition) Peter Barry Beginning film studies Andrew Dix Beginning realism Steven Earnshaw Beginning ethnic American literatures Helena Grice, Candida Hepworth, Maria Lauret and Martin Padget Beginning Shakespeare Lisa Hopkins Beginning postcolonialism (2nd edition) John McLeod Beginning postmodernism (2nd edition) Tim Woods Beginning modernism Jeff Wallace Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan Copyright © Jeff Wallace 2011 The right of Jeff Wallace to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed in Canada exclusively by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 0 7190 6788 4 hardback ISBN 978 0 7190 6789 1 paperback First published 2011 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guar¬ antee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow For Fran, with love and thanks % Contents List of figures page x Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 Modernist studies past and present 1 Stop and think 4 Key terms: modernism, modernity, postmodernism 14 Selected reading 23 2 Modernism and the visual arts 26 Narrating modernist art 27 Stop and think 30 Realism, the ‘moment’ of Cubism, and abstraction 31 Stop and think 45 Impressionism and Expressionism: uses of autonomy? 46 Stop and think 54 The question of the avant-garde: Futurism, Dada, Surrealism 55 Stop and think 64 Photography: from visual art to visual culture 65 Selected reading 72 3 History and the politics of modernism 75 The First World War 77 The Bolshevik Revolution 82 Stop and think 85 viii Contents Weimar and Bauhaus 86 Stop and think 91 Empire and colonialism 91 Technology 94 Fordist capitalism and consumer culture 98 Sex reform and gender relations 101 The politics of modernism 109 Stop and think 113 Selected reading 113 4 Modernist ideas 117 The secular 117 Evolution and entropy 121 Physics, fields and forces 124 Language 128 Stop and think 133 Time and space 136 Stop and think 136 Primitivism 141 The human subject 147 Selected reading 152 5 Modernist spaces 155 Metropolis 156 Architecture 164 Stop and think 168 Sculpture 176 Selected reading 185 6 Modernist poetry 187 Reading the modernist poem 187 Stop and think 188 Symbolism and music 191 Imagism 198 Stop and think 199 Mina Loy and H.D. 203 Rereading Pound and Eliot 207 Beyond universalism and Eurocentrism 212 Selected reading 216
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