Mastery and escape
Subtitle: T.S. Eliot and the dialectic of modernism
By: Jewel Spears Brooker.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Description: This book examines modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon. Jewel Spears Brooker distinguishes between two groups of modernists, one consisting mostly of exiles and characterized by internationalism and intellectual complexity, the other comprising primarily artists who consciously resist the aesthetic and political tendencies of the first group.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index.