Paradoxy of Modernism

by Robert Scholes

A reconsideration of the all-too-neat assumptions we make about modernism in art and literature In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions--high/low, old/new, hard/soft, poetry/rhetoric--Scholes contends that these distinctions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300108206
• ISBN13: 9780300108200
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.6"