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The Difficulties of Modernism
In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.
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The Difficulties of Modernism
In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.
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The Difficulties of Modernism

The Difficulties of Modernism

by Leonard Diepeveen
The Difficulties of Modernism
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The Difficulties of Modernism

The Difficulties of Modernism

by Leonard Diepeveen

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In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135374556
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/18/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Leonard Diepeveen

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Difficulty as FashonChapter Two: InherenceChapter Three: Professional Romanticism Defending DifficultyChapter Four: Difficulty, Vigor, and PleasureChapter Five: Simplicity, Purity, and the Modern CanonConclusion: Modern Difficulty's Inheritance
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Literature
Literary Criticism
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Literary Movements
Modernism - Literary Movements
Philosophy & Literature
Modern Literature
Literature, Modern->20th century->History and criticism
Literature
Literary Criticism
General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Literary Movements
Modernism - Literary Movements
Philosophy & Literature
Modern Literature
Literature, Modern->20th century->History and criticism

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