The Difficulties of Modernism

by Leonard Diepeveen and Leona Diepeveen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415940680
• ISBN13: 9780415940689
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"