Incredible Modeism:Literature, Trust and Deception

Incredible Modeism:Literature, Trust and Deception

by: John Attridge (Author), Rod Rosenquist (Editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Edition:1st

Publication Date: 2013-05-23

Language: English

Print Length: 258 pages

ISBN-10: 0387257683

ISBN-13: 9781409439547

Book Description

With the twentieth century came a new awareness of just how much an individual was obliged to accept on trust, and this heightened awareness of social trust in tu prompted new kinds of anxiety about fraudulence and deception. Beginning with the premise that the traditional liberal concept of trust as a ’bond of society’ entered a period of crisis around the tu of the twentieth century, this collection examines the profound influence of this shift on a wide range of modeist writers, including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Ellison and Wallace Stevens. In examining the importance of trust and fraudulence during the period, the contributors take up a diverse set of topics related to reception, the institutions of modeism, the history of authorship, the nature of representation, authenticity, genre, social order and politics. Taken as a whole, Incredible Modeism provides concrete historical coordinates for the study of twentieth-century trust, while also arguing that a problem of trust is central to the institutions and formal innovations of modeism itself.

Review

‘The forms of trust that Incredible Modeism sketches – readerly, financial, social, scholarly – appear integral to our understanding of mode experience. The expansive range of this collection is noteworthy and Rosenquist’s impressive afterword ties together many of the theories proposed in the essays …’ Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

John Attridge is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Rod Rosenquist is Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

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