Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Picasso, and writers such as James, Conrad, Eliot and Joyce are explored. The influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism is also examined. Schwarz considers texts - visual and written - of the modern period as a contoured textual field without absolute borders, crucial to our understanding of modernism in the last years of the twentieth century.
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“[In] Reconfiguring Modernism, Schwarz has initiated a dialogue between literature and the other arts that should, in his words, "open the doors and windows of literature" to diverse points of view.” —Clio
“...a model balance of intellectual acuity and critical generosity...” —Journal of English and Germanic Philology
“...a model balance of intellectual acuity and critical generosity...” —Journal of English and Germanic Philology
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I have frankly never seen Modernism addressed so lucidly and exhaustively, and yet so concisely, as Dan Schwarz does in "Reconfiguration." It clears up many, many symbolical and psychological riddles that I thought I would never have a satisfactory handle on. But as for his sentences... I've frankly never seen their equal! The competing complexity and simplicity is sheer genius. The literary student of any level would do themself an extreme injustice to miss this one!
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I have frankly never seen Modernism addressed so lucidly and exhaustively, and yet so concisely, as Dan Schwarz does in "Reconfiguration." It clears up many, many symbolical and psychological riddles that I thought I would never have a satisfactory handle on. But as for his sentences... I've frankly never seen anything like them! The competing complexity and simplicity is sheer genius. The literary student of any level would do themself an extreme injustice to miss this one! W. Pearce Brown
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In the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art stands Rodin's large 1897 statue, Monument to Balzac. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
savage mistress, man with the blue guitar, noa noa, old guitarist, supreme fiction, three dancers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Turn of the Screw, New York, Thirteen Ways of Looking, John Richardson, Les Demoiselles, The Rainbow, Lord Jim, The Second Anniversary, Matisse's Dance, Palaz of Hoon, Wallace Stevens, Miss Jessel, Museum of Modern Art, Park of the Chateau Noir, Snow Man, Stephen Dedalus, The Anniversaries, Key West, Selected Essays, The First Anniversary, The Three Musicians, Joan Richardson, Jude the Obscure, Manet's Olympia, Pablo Picasso New!
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In the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art stands Rodin's large 1897 statue, Monument to Balzac. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
savage mistress, man with the blue guitar, noa noa, old guitarist, supreme fiction, three dancers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Turn of the Screw, New York, Thirteen Ways of Looking, John Richardson, Les Demoiselles, The Rainbow, Lord Jim, The Second Anniversary, Matisse's Dance, Palaz of Hoon, Wallace Stevens, Miss Jessel, Museum of Modern Art, Park of the Chateau Noir, Snow Man, Stephen Dedalus, The Anniversaries, Key West, Selected Essays, The First Anniversary, The Three Musicians, Joan Richardson, Jude the Obscure, Manet's Olympia, Pablo Picasso New!
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- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on 24 pages
- Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on 24 pages
- The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry James on 16 pages
- Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin by Paul Gauguin on 14 pages
- Lord Jim (Everyman's Library) by Joseph Conrad on 11 pages
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- Joyce, "Penelope" and the Body (European Joyce Studies 17) by Richard Brown (Ed.) on page 21, and page 111
- Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890-1930 (Reading the Novel) by Daniel R. Schwarz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture by Karen Jacobs in Back Matter
- Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory by Todd F. Davis in Back Matter
- Rethinking Modernism by Marianne Thormählen in Back Matter
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