Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text

by Richard Lehan

Book Overview

Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition, but the Nietzschean theory that reality depends on perception connected them all. This modernist movement reached a distinguished level of achievement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807143677
• ISBN13: 9780807143674
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"