Satirizing Modernism: Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde - Emmett Stinson

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Résumé :
Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things-were under-recognized and received poor reviews at the time of publication, but have increasingly been acknowledged as both groundbreaking and deeply influential. Satirizing Modernism analyzes these novels in order to present an alternative account of literary modernism, which should be viewed neither as a radical break with the past nor an outmoded set of aesthetics overtaken by a later postmodernism. In self-reflexively critiquing their own aesthetics, these works express an unconventional modernism that both revises literary history and continues to be felt today....

Biographie:
Emmett Stinson is Lecturer in Literature and Writing at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author, with Richard Pennell and Pam Pryde, of Banning Islamic Books in Australia (2011). He is also editor of By the Book? Contemporary Publishing in Australia (2013)....

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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Autonomy, Satire, Romanticism, Avant-Garde
2. The Romantic Satire of Romanticism: Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey
3. Modernism Against Itself: Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God
4. Exhausting Modernism: Satire, Sublimity and Late Modernism in William Gaddis's The Recognitions
5. Aporia and the Satiric Imagination: The Limit-Modernism of Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
6. Conclusion: Satire and Radical Apophasis in Evan Dara's The Easy Chain
Bibliography
Index