Modernist Impersonalities : Affect, Authority, and the Subject

English

ISBN: 113702187X

EAN: 9781137021878

Category: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory/Literary Criticism / General/

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release Date: 09/30/2012

Synopsis: This study reconsiders the meaning of impersonality, the term modernists such as T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis explicitly employed in their critiques of personality, especially as it has been defined in classic works by critics such as Maud Ellmann, Daniel Albright, and Michael Levenson. Unbinding its connection to authority, Rochelle Rives argues that impersonality, as a response to the increasing prominence of personality in twentieth-century political and aestheticculture, might be understood instead as an exploration of affective engagement that spatially re-orients social and aesthetic hierarchies. In doing so, Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate.

Modernist Impersonalities : Affect, Authority, and the Subject

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.73 inches

Width: 5.7 inches

Length: 8.87 inches

Weight: 15.87 oz

Pages: 230