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  1. Waking giants
    the presence of the past in modernism
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195068629; 1280440864; 1423737091; 1601298129; 9780195068627; 9781280440861; 9781423737094; 9781601298126
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; American literature; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Literature); History in literature; Memory in literature; Vergangenheit; Vergangenheit <Motiv>; Lyrik; Literatur; Englisch
    Other subjects: Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941): Winesburg, Ohio; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972): The cantos; Forster, E. M. (1879-1970): Howards End; Joyce, James (1882-1941): Ulysses; Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924): The secret agent; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 279 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Century's corpse outleant : Hardy and modernism -- Safe as houses : Forster as Cambridge anthropologist -- Primal scene in the Secret agent : sex and violence in the nightmare universe -- Personal past recaptured : Anderson & Sons -- Ezra Pound : the archaeology of the immanent

    This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to "make it new" stemmed from seeing the past as a source of renewal. Schneidau focuses on separate texts that incorporate these concepts: Joyce's Ulysses, Hardy's poems, Forster's H.

  2. Waking giants
    the presence of the past in modernism
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists... more

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    This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to "make it new" stemmed from seeing the past as a source of renewal. Schneidau focuses on separate texts that incorporate these concepts: Joyce's Ulysses, Hardy's poems, Forster's H

     

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  3. Waking giants
    the presence of the past in modernism
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists... more

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    This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to "make it new" stemmed from seeing the past as a source of renewal. Schneidau focuses on separate texts that incorporate these concepts: Joyce's Ulysses, Hardy's poems, Forster's H.

     

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