Structure and Chaos in Modernist Works - Bruce E. Fleming

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Résumé :
The works of Modernism (ca. 1910-1930), in the last years of our century, tend to be treated as mere facts, mines for history and biography. In fact the Modernist work, whether of literature, philosophy, film, or dance, is a radical and potentially powerful entity. Fleming analyzes the works of Modernist artists as actions in the world, processes rather than static objects, that mediate between the artist and the world. Among the more striking analyses is a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus as a Modernist drama.

Biographie:
The Author: Bruce Fleming is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Fleming previously taught at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, and was a Fulbright Professor at the National University of Rwanda. He received an O. Henry short story award in 1990, and his treatise in aesthetics, An Essay in Post-Romantic Literary Theory, won the 1991 Book Award in Comparative Studies of the Northeast Modern Language Association.