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Modernism An Anthology of Sources and Documents

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ISBN-10: 0226450740

ISBN-13: 9780226450742

Edition: 1998

Authors: Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, Olga Taxidou

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From Bauhaus to Dada, from Virginia Woolf to John Dos Passos, the Modernist movement revolutionized the way we perceive, portray, and participate in the world. This landmark anthology is a comprehensive documentary resource for the study of Modernism, bringing together more than 150 key essays, articles, manifestos, and other writings of the political and aesthetic avant-garde between 1840 and 1950.By favoring short extracts over lengthier originals, the editors cover a remarkable range and variety of modernist thinking. Included are not just the familiar high modernist landmarks such as Gustave Flaubert, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce, but also a diverse representation from the sciences,…    
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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 654
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Introduction
A note on presentation
The Emergence of the ModernIa: The modern in cultural, political and scientific thought
From letter to Ruge, September 1843
From The Communist Manifesto 1848
From 'Art and Revolution' 1849
From The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1859
From Mother Right 1861
From Preface to Human, All Too Human 1878
From Degeneration 1883
From 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1884
From The Secret Doctrine 1888
From The Golden Bough 1890-1915
From The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 1895
From The Theory of the Leisure Class 1899
From The Education of Henry Adams 1907
From The Interpretation of Dreams 1900
From 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' 1903
From Woman Under Socialism 1904
From The Souls of Black Folk 1903
From Creative Evolution 1907
From Abstraction and Empathy 1908
From 'Ornament and Crime' 1908
'The Good Conduct Medal' 1909
From 'Women's Suffrage' 1911
From The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salome 1912, 1913
From The Decline of the West 1918-22
Modern aesthetics
From review of Nathanial Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1842
From Preface to Leaves of Grass 1855
From letter to Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie, 18 March 1857
From 'On the Modern Element in Literature' 1857
From 'The Painter of Modern Life' 1859-60
From letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871
From Lectures on Art 1870; From Arartra Pentelici 1872
From Conclusion to The Renaissance [1873] 1893
From Preface to Miss Julie 1888
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
'The Science of Fiction' 1891
From 'Crisis in Poetry' 1886-95
From 'Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci' 1895
'Preliminary Address at the First Performance of Ubi Roi, 10 December 1896'
From Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' 1897
From The Symbolist Movement in Literature 1899
From 'The Symbolism of Poetry' 1900
From 'Days of Reading: I' 1905
From 'Henrik Ibsen: Philosopher or Poet' 1905
From 'The Art of Fiction' 1894; From Preface to The Princess Casamassima 1906
From 'The Actor and the uber-marionette' 1907
From My Life 1927
From The Sanity of Art 1908
The Avant-GardeIIa. Formulations and declarations
From Realist Manifesto 1855
From 'Naturalism on the Stage' 1880
'The Post-Impressionists' 1910
From 'Romanticism and Classicism' 1911
From The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 1911
'The French Group' 1912
'The English Group' 1912
'Light' 1912; 'Notes on the Construction of the Reality of Pure Painting' 1912
'The Musician's Day' 1913; 'Some Notes on Modern Music' 1919
From 'The Cubist Room' 1914
From 'In These Great Times' 1914
From 'Zurich 1916, as it really was' 1928
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