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Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture.(Review)
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INSTITUTIONS OF MODERNISM: LITERARY ELITES AND PUBLIC CULTURE. By LAWRENCE RAINEY. Yale University Press. 256 pp. $25.
SOME BOOKS ARE like barometers: interesting chiefly for what they tell us about the prevailing climate. Lawrence Rainey's Institutions of Modernism is a case in point. Readers who care about literary modernism will find little to detain them in this book. The names of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and H.D.--the authors with whom Rainey is primari...
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Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture.(Review)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; INSTITUTIONS OF MODERNISM: LITERARY ELITES AND PUBLIC CULTURE. By LAWRENCE RAINEY. Yale University Press. 256 pp. $25. SOME BOOKS ARE like barometers: interesting chiefly for what they tell us about the prevailing climate. Lawrence Rainey's Institutions of Modernism is a case in point. Readers who
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An obituary for modernism
Jerusalem Post
; Headline: An obituary for modernism Byline: GLENN C. ALTSCHULER Edition; Up Front Section: Books Page: 33 Friday, February 22, 2008 -- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay Norton 610 pages; $35 'On or about December 1910," Virginia Woolf famously
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A girl's guide to modernism's grammar: language politics in experimental women's fiction.(Australia)(Critical Essay)
Hecate
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Modernism touched all phases of life.(THE HOME FORUM)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Katherine Stephen What is Modernism anyway? Where did it come from, and why does it seem to surround us? We think we know Modernism when we see it, starting with sleek, streamlined, no-frills forms. Maybe Modernism thrills us as an indication that the future is, in fact, now. Or perhaps we
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The Washington Post
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The appeal of Modernism, circa today
International Herald Tribune
; Alan Riding International Herald Tribune 04-20-2006 The Victoria & Albert Museum wants the British to like Modernism. No easy task, you might think. Before World War II, many Britons viewed the movement's left-leaning politics and geometrical designs as suspiciously cosmopolitan. And since the
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Twentieth Century Literature
; Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay NewYork: W.W. Norton, 2007. 610 pages The word modernism no longer calls to mind a simple singular aesthetic or a particular set of ideas. To think about what it means is to ask: Whose modernism? What kind? When? Barnett Newman and others of his generation
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Evening Standard - London
; MODERNISM is a portmanteau term and, like the portmanteau of the baggage world, it expands to accommodate whatever is stuffed into it until - as now - it bulges so much that it splits its seams. No institution is better qualified to unpack it than the VA Museum, that stern guardian of the territory
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From Bauhaus to our house: Modernism, 1914-1939.
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; A crystal glows in golden tones, drawing the eye and the imagination. The crystal is a model, a three-dimensional design in tinted glass, curving close to the earth and, simultaneously, lifting the spirit upward. The structure is a model for a glass pavilion, created by Bruno Taut in 1914 for the
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