Mosaic modernism
Subtitle: anarchism, pragmatism, culture
By: David Kadlec.
Series: New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.; American literature -- English influences.; Pragmatism in literature.; Anarchism in literature.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Description: "In Mosaic Modernism David Kadlec examines the anarchist and pragmatist origins of modernism as a literary/cultural phenomenon. Treating a wide range of historical sources and materials, many of them previously unpublished, Kadlec argues that the formal experiements of leading modernists were spurred by German, French, and British anarchists. He thus offers a dramatically new account of modernism's political genesis and the mosaic, improvisational tendencies of modern literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-315) and index.