Sven Birkerts explores the impacts of two world wars and the collapse of the assumption of Humanism on a diverse group of modern writers, bringing to light the aspect of a world literature promoting an international perspective. Photographs.
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Sven Birkerts explores the impacts of two world wars and the collapse of the assumption of Humanism on a diverse group of modern writers, bringing to light the aspect of a world literature promoting an international perspective. Photographs.
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Add this copy of An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century to cart. $3.48, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by William Morrow & Company.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1987. Morrow. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0688071139. 431 pages. hardcover. Jacket art-Gabo. Naum; Head of a Woman (c.1917-20. after a work of 1916). Construction in celluloid and metal. Jacket design by Vittoria Semproni. keywords: Literary Criticism 20th Centiry. DESCRIPTION-Postmodernism contends that everything has been done, that all artistic modes and genres have been exhausted. Innovation is no longer seen as possible. Style, therefore, is no longer bound to historical context. Art is to be viewed more as an arena for ingenuity than as an expressive necessity. If there were nothing but recent American fiction to go by I would almost have to cede the postmodernists their point. Fortunately there is more to contemporary literature than is dreamed of in that philosophy Indeed, I believe that the writers discussed in this book give vigorous lie to the argument from exhaustion. But we have to look beyond our borders. For it is no coincidence that most of the authors are from cultures that feel, or have recently felt, the sharp pressure of history. '-So contends Sven Birkerts, winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Citation for excellence in reviewing, in the introduction to this masterful collection of essays. Over eight years in the writing, An Artificial Wilderness takes a wide-angle view of twentieth-century world literature. Essays explore the impact of two world wars and the collapse of the assumptions of humanism upon a diverse group of modem writers. The book has a multiple focus. In presenting figures like Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, and Osip Mandelstam, Birkerts discusses responses to the climate of catastrophe prevalent between the wars. Then, in assessments of Primo Levi, Michel Tournier, Marguerite Duras, and others, he examines the postwar reaction. Pieces on younger novelists (Eva Demski, Peter Schneider, Lars Gustafsson) look at the dilemmas faced by European writers who were born after the war. Though the majority of the essays in An Artificial Wilderness are concerned with European literature, readings of V. S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott (West Indies), Yaakov Shabtai (Israel), Salman Rushdie (Pakistan), and Julio Cortăzar (Argentina) trace the ripples out to the Western perimeter. In addition, included is a set of essays on trends in American literature as Sven Birkerts takes a look at ‘docu-fiction' and at the school of Gordon Lish, as well as more general meditations on television, reading, and literary biography. ‘Notes from a Confession, ' one of the latter, was named one of the best American essays of 1986 by Elizabeth Hardwick. Despite the fact that many of the writers Birkerts focuses on are preoccupied with the dissolution of old assumptions about our culture, at the heart of this book is the belief expressed by Ezra Pound that ‘transportation is civilization, ' that the translation of these works is steadily promoting a new international perspective. For the first time ever we can begin to speak pf a world literature. inventory #9220.
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As New in As New jacket. NY: Morrow, 1987. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. As New in an as new dust jacket. A pristine unread copy, tight and clean. Literary criticism.
