Modernism and Style

Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' style, this traces the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s.

Auteur
Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent.

Contenu
Acknowledgements Introduction Philosophical Beginnings 1857: Literary Beginnings The 'Virus' of Prose: Decadent style and the Modernist Novel 1922: Style and the Modernist Lyric The 'Alibi' of Style: Modernist Manifestos Conclusion Bibliography Index