AI SearchWhat ever happened to modernism? / (Record no. 107189)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 100520s2010 ctua b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780300165777 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0300165773 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | SDU |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PN56.M5 |
| Item number | J83 W 2010 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Josipovici, Gabriel, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | What ever happened to modernism? / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Gabriel Josipovici. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Haven [Conn.] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Yale University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 208 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - Formatted Contents Note | |
| Formatted contents note | HKBU Library |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY | |
| Summary | 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 Dürer, Rabelais, and Cervantes to the present, bringing together a rich array of artists, musicians, and writers both familiar and unexpected--including Beckett, Borges, Friedrich, Cézanne, 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Topical term | Modernism (Literature) |
| 900 ## - Accession Number | |
| Accession Number | = C.1 SDU |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Available for Loans | General Books | MATRIX Library | MATRIX Library | General Eng/FL.3 | 22/09/2025 | Donation | PN56.M5 J83 W 2010 | 1000374405 | 22/09/2025 | C.1 | 22/09/2025 | English Books |