Title: Mastery and Escape
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature), Eliot, t. s. (thomas stearns), 1888-1965
Places: United States
People: T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)