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The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics
Lesley Higgins
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Description for The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics
Hardcover. This volume summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T.E. Hulme, the self styled "men of 1914", responded to the "horrid or sordid or disgusting" conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practices. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
'Cult of Ugliness', Ezra Pound's phrase, powerfully summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T.E. Hulme - the self styled 'Men of 1914' - responded to the 'horrid or sordid or disgusting' conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practices. Only the representation of 'ugliness', they protested, would produce the new, truly 'beautiful' work of art. Claiming membership in a cult, however playfully, was a crucial means of group and self-representation and promotion, a defense against personal, socio-economic, and artistic marginalization. Strategically, they dissociated the Beautiful from its traditional, troubling ... Read more
'Cult of Ugliness', Ezra Pound's phrase, powerfully summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T.E. Hulme - the self styled 'Men of 1914' - responded to the 'horrid or sordid or disgusting' conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practices. Only the representation of 'ugliness', they protested, would produce the new, truly 'beautiful' work of art. Claiming membership in a cult, however playfully, was a crucial means of group and self-representation and promotion, a defense against personal, socio-economic, and artistic marginalization. Strategically, they dissociated the Beautiful from its traditional, troubling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312240370
SKU
V9780312240370
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About Lesley Higgins
LESLEY HIGGINS is an Associate Professor of English at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Reviews for The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics
'...Informed, scholarly work...it has an attractive interdisciplinarity...there is a freshness to the focus.' - Bonnie Kine Scott, University of Delaware.