1913

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The Cradle of Modernism

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This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.<br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels<br /> </li> <li>Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky<br /> </li> <li>Explores Pound’s <i>Personae</i> next to Apollinaire’s <i>Alcools</i> and Rilke’s <i>Spanish Trilogy</i>, Edith Wharton’s <i>The Custom of the Country</i> next to Proust’s <i>Swann’s Way</i></li> </ul>