The idea of the modern in literature and the arts / Edited with an introdudction and commentary by Irving Howe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, Irving, compiler.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern.

Arts.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Modernism (Art).

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

317 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Horizon Press, [1968, c1967].

Contents:

Introduction. The idea of the modern / by Irving Howe

Part One. General Considerations. Moderns and contemporaries / by Stephen Spender; The modern as vision of the whole / by Stephen Spender; On the modern element in modern literature / by Lionel Trilling; The dehumanization of art / by José Ortega y Gasset; Artistic truth and warped vision / by William Phillips; Past and present / by David Jones; If and Perhaps and But / by David Jones; Aesthetics of crisis / by Harold Rosenberg; Advance-guard writing in America: 1900-1950 / by Paul Goodman; The fate of the avant-garde / by Richard Chase; The end of the line / by Randall Jarrell

Part Two. Two Manifestoes. A manifesto of Italian futurism; On literature, revolution, and entropy / by Evgeni Zamyatin

Part Three. A Few Modernist Movements. Symbolism / by Graham Hough; Symbolisme from Poe to Mallarmé / by Joseph Chiari; Considerations on Symbolism / by Marcel Raymond; Dada / by Marcel Raymond; Surrealism and revolution / by Albert Camus; Looking back on surrealism / by Theodor W. Adorno; The film age / by Arnold Hauser

Part Four. Some Major Figures. Baudelaire / by Jean-Paul Sartre; People in Proust / by Martin Turnell; Thomas Mann and André Gide / by Kenneth Burke; Rilke and Nietzsche / by Erich Heller; T. S. Eliot as the international hero / by Delmore Schwartz; Tradition and modernity: Wallace Stevens / by J. V. Cunningham; Yeats and Irish politics / by Conor Cruise O'Brien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1983".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0818011831

OCLC:

176971