Book review of Gualberto Valverde, Rebeca (2021). Wasteland Modernism: The Disenchantment of Myth. Valencia: Publicacions de la Universitat de València.
The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, ...modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart from the middle- and low-brow culture in which celebrity supposedly resides. To challenge this ingrained dichotomy between modernism and celebrity, Jonathan Goldman offers a provocative new reading of early twentieth-century culture and the formal experiments that constitute modernist literature's unmistakable legacy. He argues that the literary innovations of the modernists are indeed best understood as a participant in the popular phenomenon of celebrity.
Presenting a persuasive argument as well as a chronicle of modernism's and celebrity's shared history,Modernism Is the Literature of Celebritybegins by unraveling the uncanny syncretism between Oscar Wilde's writings and his public life. Goldman explains that Wilde, in shaping his instantly identifiable public image, provided a model for both literary and celebrity cultures in the decades that followed. In subsequent chapters, Goldman traces this lineage through two luminaries of the modernist canon, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, before turning to the cinema of mega-star Charlie Chaplin. He investigates how celebrity and modernism intertwine in the work of two less obvious modernist subjects, Jean Rhys and John Dos Passos. Turning previous criticism on its head, Goldman demonstrates that the authorial self-fashioning particular to modernism and generated by modernist technique helps create celebrity as we now know it.
The review starts with the description of the structure of the book, where part one presents research about modernism in cinema, and part two offers a rich historical analysis of late modernism phase ...in Polish cinema of 1970s and 1980s. The review underlines the book's focus not only on textual analysis, but also on institutional frameworks of late modern cinema. The book is a brilliant proposal to refresh the conceptual framework of discussion about Polish cinema of late 20th century. Trzej twórcy (Andrzej Żuławski, Grzegorz Królikiewicz i Piotr Szulkin), których filmy Miłosz Stelmach bliżej analizuje, mniej więcej przed dekadą stali się obiektem procesu przywracania ich do kanonu za pośrednictwem cennych wywiadów rzek, przeprowadzonych przez Piotra Kłetowskiego i Piotra Mareckiego, które ukazywały się w wydawnictwie Ha!art.
The new articles in this volume by Lingxiang Ke, John Pedro Schwartz, and Kathryn Van Wert-together with Jeanette McVicker's important contribution to Woof Studies Annual 28 (2022)-form a cluster of ...studies marking the centenary of 1922, modernism's annus mirabilis and publication year of Virginia Woolf's Jacob s Room. In addition to these articles and a number of reviews of new books in the field, WSA 29 also continues the Index Project started in volume 28, this time indexing articles published in WSA 11-15 (2005-2009). WSA 29 also features a forum of essays in response to Mark Hussey's Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism (2021)-a text that fundamentally reorients Bell for readers not only of Woolf but also of Bloomsbury and twentieth-century art criticism and history more broadly.
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Automatic for the masses Petrov, Petre M
Automatic for the masses,
2015, 20150225, 2015, 2015-01-01, 2015-02-26
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InAutomatic for the Masses, Petre M. Petrov offers a novel, theoretically informed account of the transition from modernism to Socialist Realism, tracing their connections through Modernist notions ...of agency and authorship.
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