High Modernism: Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s

by Joshua Kavaloski

Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history.

High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term's meaning, the value and significance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139109
• ISBN13: 9781571139108
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"