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Author : Peter Gay
Release : 2008
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 053/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism the Lure of Heresy by : Peter Gay
Download or read book Modernism the Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
Author : Peter Howarth
Release : 2011-11-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by : Peter Howarth
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry written by Peter Howarth. This book was released on 2011-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
Author : Peter Gay
Release : 2010-08-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 591/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by : Peter Gay
Download or read book Modernism: The Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay. This book was released on 2010-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, D. W. Griffiths, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course!) Andy Warhol.
Author : Peter Gay
Release : 2015-01-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 094/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why the Romantics Matter by : Peter Gay
Download or read book Why the Romantics Matter written by Peter Gay. This book was released on 2015-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense achievements of romantic writers and artists in all media. Gay’s scope is wide, his insights sharp. He takes on the recurring questions about how to interpret romantic figures and their works. Who qualifies to be a romantic? What ties together romantic figures who practice in different countries, employ different media, even live in different centuries? How is modernism indebted to romanticism, if at all? Guiding readers through the history of the romantic movement across Britain, France, Germany, and Switzerland, Gay argues that the best way to conceptualize romanticism is to accept its complicated nature and acknowledge that there is no “single basket” to contain it. Gay conceives of romantics in “families,” whose individual members share fundamental values but retain unique qualities. He concludes by demonstrating that romanticism extends well into the twentieth century, where its deep and lasting impact may be measured in the work of writers such as T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Release : 2012-03-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 325/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power Over Peoples by : Daniel R. Headrick
Download or read book Power Over Peoples written by Daniel R. Headrick. This book was released on 2012-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.
