336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was... Read more
Chapter One: Difficulty as FashonChapter Two: InherenceChapter Three: Professional Romanticism Defending DifficultyChapter Four: Difficulty, Vigor, and PleasureChapter Five: Simplicity, Purity, and the Modern CanonConclusion: Modern Difficulty's Inheritance
Biography
Leonard Diepeveen
"...draw[s] conclusions on how art best serves culture." -- Choice
"After more than thirty years of continuing Marxist, feminist, postcolonial and postmodernist demystification of modernism and its critical companion, New Criticism, Leonard Diepeveen's book The Difficulties of Modernism returns to the earliest and most persistent attack voiced against modernist art: its difficulty." -- Vivian Liska, Modern Language Quarterly
"The scope of Diepeveen's book is more than impressive, its stance admirably measured." -- V. Nicholas Lolordo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Contemporary Literature
