03310nam a2200337 a 4500 ebr10579395 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100520s2010 ctu sb 001 0 eng d 2010020776 9780300165777 (cl alk. paper) 0300165773 (cl alk. paper) 9780300165821 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)808346536 PN56.M54 J67 2010eb 809/.9112 22 Josipovici, Gabriel, 1940- What ever happened to modernism? [electronic resource] / Gabriel Josipovici. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010. xii, 208 p. Includes bibliographical references ([188]-196) and index. My whole body puts me on my guard against each word -- The oracles are silent -- What shall we have to drink in these deserts? -- Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom -- I heard the murmur and the murmuring sound -- It's a quick death, God help us all -- The marquise went out at five -- A universe for the first time bereft of all signposts -- The mutilated body was thrown back into the sea -- Fenande has left with a futurist -- A clown, perhaps, but an aspiring clown -- I would prefer not to -- The imitation of an action -- It takes talent to lead art that far astray -- Stories of modernism. The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing--a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why. Modernism, Josipovici suggests, is only superficially a reaction to industrialization of a revolution in diction and form; essentially, it is art arriving at a consciousness of its own limits and responsibilities. And its origins are to be sought not in 1850 or even 1800, but in the early 1500s, with the crisis of society and perception that also led to the rise of Protestantism. With sophistication and persuasiveness, Josipovici charts some of Modernism's key stages, from D�urer, Rabelais, and Cervantes to the present, bringing together a rich array of artists, musicians, and writers both familiar and unexpected--including Beckett, Borges, Friedrich, C�ezanne, Stevens, Robbe-Grillet, Beethoven, and Wordsworth. He concludes with a stinging attack on the current literary scene in Britain and America, which raises questions not only about national taste, but about contemporary culture itself. Gabriel Josipovici has spent a lifetime writing and writing about other writers. This book is a strident call to arms and a tour de force of literary, artistic, and philosophical explication that will stimulate anyone interested in art in the twentieth century and today. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Modernism (Literature) Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579395 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 85861 85861