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Mock Modernism
How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines likePunch and Vanity Fair, and literary magazines. In the earliest decades of the movement before modernist artists were considered important, and before modernism's meaning was clearly understood many of these interpretations took the form of parodies. Mock Modernism is an anthology of these amusing pieces, the overwhelming majority of which have not been in print since the first decades of the twentieth century. They include Max Beerbohm's send...
Modernist Fraud
Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles. Modernist Fraud explores a wide range of materials. It draws on reviews and newspaper accounts o...
Poetry Review
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The Georgian Revolt
The twelve years covered in this book saw the publication of the six volumes of Georgian Poetry, the series of anthologies of contemporary verse edited by Edward Marsh. The author describes the circumstances and personalities involved in their creation and critical reception. In its prime before World War I the Georgian movement attracted poets such as D.H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de la Mare, Issac Rosenberg and Robert Graves and exemplified the idealist spirit of modernity of its time.
