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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    01 November 2018
    01 November 2018
    ISBN:
    9781108525961
    9781108423397
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525961
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 234 Pages
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    Literature, English Literature after 1945
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    Critics have traditionally maintained that capitalism's resurgence after the Second World War precipitated the transition from modernism to postmodernism. This revisionist account shows that modernism does not simply decline. By foregrounding phenomenological conceptions of bodily experience, Jason M. Baskin reveals modernism's ongoing vitality. Key postwar writers, critics and philosophers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Ralph Ellison and Raymond Williams, as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno, developed an aesthetics of embodiment that adapted modernism to a new postwar landscape. Working across differences of race, gender, national and intellectual tradition, genre and form, Baskin contends that these authors used ordinary bodily experiences, such as perception, memory and laughter, to imagine modes of common being and purpose that were otherwise unavailable in a postwar society dominated by liberal capitalism.

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