What Ever Happened to Modernism?

by Gabriel Josipovici

Book Overview

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing - a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why.

Modernism, Josipovici suggests, is only superficially a reaction to industrialization or a revolution in diction and form; essentially, it is art coming to consciousness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030017800X
• ISBN13: 9780300178005
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"