The lessons of modernism, and other essays
By: Gabriel Josipovici.
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Four writers, An art for the wilderness, Franz Kafka, 1883-1924. Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935. Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940. Saul Bellow.; title: Modernism and culture, English studies and European culture. The lessons of modernism. Linearity and fragmentation.; title: Voice and body, Words and music today. The rake's progress. Maxwell Davies's Taverner. Two moments in modern music-theatre. The importance of Stockhausen's Inori.