Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Name: Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
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ISBN: 9780395937587

ISBN-10: 0395937582

ISBN-13: 9780395937587

Edition: 2000

Authors: Modris Eksteins

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Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OF SPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I -- from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this "bold and fertile book" (Atlantic Monthly), Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature,…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 0.880

Modris Eksteins was born in Latvia in 1943 & is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.



Map of the Western Front


Preface


Prologue: Venice






Paris


Vision


May 29, 1913


Le Theatre Des Champs-Elysees


Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes


Rebellion


Confrontation and Liberation


Audience


Scandal as Success



Berlin


Ver Sacrum


Overture


Technique


Capital


Kultur


Culture and Revolt


War as Culture



In Flanders' Fields


A Corner of A Foreign Field


Guns of August


Peace on Earth


The Reason Why


Victorian Synthesis


Is There Honey Still for Tea?






Rites of War


Battle Ballet


Themes


Transvaluation



Reason in Madness


Theirs Was Not to Reason Why


Duty



Sacred Dance


War God


Congregation



Journey to the Interior


War as Art


Art as Form


Art and Morality


Avant-Garde






Night Dancer


The New Christ


Star


Lest We Forget


Itinerary and Symbol


New Worlds and Old


Associations



Memory


War Boom


Life of Death


Fame


Cloud Juggler



Spring Without End


Germany, Awake!


Victim Hero


Art as Life


Myth as Reality


"Es Ist Ein Fruhling Ohne Ende!"


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Sources


Index