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Tables of Contents for Modernism
Chapter/Section Title
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Introduction
xvii
A note on presentation
xxi
I The Emergence of the Modern
Ia The modern in cultural, political and scientific thought
From letter to Ruge, September 1843
5
1
Karl Marx
From The Communist Manifesto 1848
6
2
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
From `Art and Revolution' 1849
8
2
Richard Wilhelm Wagner
From The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1859
10
2
Charles Darwin
From Mother Right 1861
12
5
Johann Jakob Bachofen
From Preface to Human, All Too Human 1878
17
5
Friedrich Nietzsche
From Degeneration 1883
22
5
Max Nordau
From `Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1884
27
4
William Morris
From The Secret Doctrine 1888
31
2
H. P. B.
From The Golden Bough 1890--1915
33
3
J. G. Frazer
From The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 1895
36
2
Gustave Le Bon
From The Theory of the Leisure Class 1899
38
3
Thorstein Veblen
From The Education of Henry Adams 1907
41
6
Henry Adams
From The Interpretation of Dreams 1900
47
4
Sigmund Freud
From `The Metropolis and Mental Life' 1903
51
9
Georg Simmel
From Woman Under Socialism 1904
60
5
August Bebel
From The Souls of Black Folk 1903
65
3
W. E. B. Du Bois
From Creative Evolution 1907
68
4
Henri Bergson
From Abstraction and Empathy 1908
72
5
Wilhelm Worringer
From `Ornament and Crime' 1908
77
4
Adolf Loos
`The Good Conduct Medal' 1909
81
2
Karl Kraus
From `Women's Suffrage' 1911
83
2
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
From The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salome 1912, 1913
85
2
Lou Andreas-Salome
From The Decline of the West 1918--22
87
6
Oswald Spengler
Ib Modern aesthetics
From review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1842
93
1
Edgar Allan Poe
From Preface to Leaves of Grass 1855
94
3
Walt Whitman
From letter to Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie, 18 March 1857
97
1
Gustave Flaubert
From `On the Modern Element in Literature' 1857
98
4
Matthew Arnold
From `The Painter of Modern Life' 1859--60
102
7
Charles Baudelaire
From letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871
109
2
Arthur Rimbaud
From Lectures on Art 1870 From Arartra Pentelici 1872
111
1
John Ruskin
From Conclusion to The Renaissance [1873] 1893
112
3
Walter Pater
From Preface to Miss Julie 1888
115
4
August Strindberg
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
119
1
Oscar Wilde
`The Science of Fiction' 1891
120
3
Thomas Hardy
From `Crisis in Poetry' 1886--95
123
4
Stephane Mallarme
From `Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci' 1895
127
2
Paul Valery
`Preliminary Address at the First Performance of Ubu Roi, 10 December 1896'
129
2
Alfred Jarry
From Preface to The Nigger of the `Narcissus' 1897
131
3
Joseph Conrad
From The Symbolist Movement in Literature 1899
134
2
Arthur Symons
From `The Symbolism of Poetry' 1900
136
4
W. B. Yeats
From `Days of Reading: I' 1905
140
5
Marcel Proust
From `Henrik Ibsen: Philosopher or Poet' 1905
145
2
William Archer
From `The Art of Fiction' 1894 From Preface to The Princess Casamassima 1906
147
3
Henry James
From `The Actor and the Uber-marionette' 1907
150
4
Edward Gordon Craig
From My Life 1927
154
6
Isadora Duncan
From The Sanity of Art 1908
160
9
George Bernard Shaw
II The Avant-Garde
IIa Formulations and declarations
From Realist Manifesto 1855
169
1
Gustave Courbet
From `Naturalism on the Stage' 1880
169
5
Emile Zola
`The Post-Impressionists' 1910
174
4
Desmond MacCarthy
From `Romanticism and Classicism' 1911
178
7
T.E. Hulme
From The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 1911
185
4
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
`The French Group' 1912
189
3
Roger Fry
`The English Group' 1912
192
2
Clive Bell
`Light' 1912 `Notes on the Construction of the Reality of Pure Painting' 1912
194
4
Robert Delaunay
`The Musician's Day' 1913 `Some Notes on Modern Music' 1919
198
2
Erik Satie
From `The Cubist Room' 1914
200
1
Wyndham Lewis
From `In These Great Times' 1914
201
6
Karl Kraus
From `Zurich 1916, as it really was' 1928
207
4
Richard Huelsenbeck
`Art and the War: Concerning an Allied Exhibition' 1916 Programme for Parade, 18 May 1917
211
3
Guillaume Apollinaire
`Marinetti the Revolutionary' 1916 `Theatre and Cinema' 1921
214
3
Antonio Gramsci
From `Art as Technique' 1917
217
4
Victor Shklovsky
From Ten Days That Shook the World 1919
221
2
John Reed
`A Member of the Audience: Storming the Winter Palace' 1920
223
2
From The Theory of the Novel 1920
225
4
Georg Lukacs
From Literature and Revolution 1923
229
3
Leon Trotsky
From `Make Way for the Winged Eros' 1923
232
5
Alexandra Kollontai
From `A Kino-Eye Discussion' 1924
237
1
Dziga Vertov
`Suburbs' 1923
238
2
Luis Bunuel
From `The Reconstruction of the Theatre' 1929
240
2
Vsevolod Meyerhold
From `Basic Principles of Sociological Drama' 1929
242
16
Erwin Piscator
IIb Manifestos
Futurism
`The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909' `The Variety Theatre' 1913
249
8
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
`Why We Paint Ourselves: A Futurist Manifesto' 1913
257
1
Ilya Zdanevich
Mikhail Larionov
`Feminist Manifesto' 1914
258
4
Mina Loy
Cubism
262
6
Imagism
268
2
Expressionism
270
21
Dada
From `Dada Manifesto, 1918' `Note on Art' 1917 `Note on Negro Art' 1917
276
5
Tristan Tzara
From Merz 1921 From `Consistent Poetry' 1924 `To All the Theatres of the World' 1926
281
6
Kurt Schwitters
From `Art is in Danger' 1925
287
4
George Grosz
Wieland Herzfelde
Vorticism
291
4
Eccentricism
295
9
Constructivism
From Constructivism 1922
298
1
Aleksei Gan
`Constructivism and the Proletariat' 1922
299
2
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus
`Manifesto of the Bauhaus, April 1919'
301
1
Walter Gropius
From `Economic Living' 1924
302
1
Annelise Fleischmann
`The New Typography' 1923
302
1
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Diary extract 1927
303
1
Oscar Schlemmer
Manifesto issued by the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors, Mexico City, 1922
304
1
Lef Manifesto 1923
305
2
Surrealism
307
5
transition
312
3
Anarchism
315
6
III Modernists on the Modern
IIIa The 1910s and 1920s: The making of Modernist traditions
From `England's Nest of Singing Birds' 1915
321
2
(Margaret) Storm Jameson
From `On Impressionism' 1914
323
8
Ford Madox Ford
From `I Am.' 1915
331
2
Dora Marsden
From `Notes on Sensationism' 1916
333
1
Fernando Pessoa
From `Against American Literature' 1916
334
3
John Dos Passos
From `Anima Hominis' 1917
337
5
W. B. Yeats
From Preface to Tendencies in Modernist Poetry 1917
342
2
Amy Lowell
From Prologue to Kora in Hell 1918
344
7
William Carlos Williams
From a review of Pilgrimage 1918
351
3
May Sinclair
From `What is Modern?' 1918
354
3
Edwin Muir
From `The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy' 1919
357
5
E. M. Forster
From reviews for the Athenaeum 1919 From letters to John Middleton Murry 1919
362
2
Katherine Mansfield
From Diaries 1918, 1919, 1920
364
2
Thomas Mann
From `Tradition and the Individual Talent' 1919 From `Ulysses, Order, and Myth' 1923
366
7
T. S. Eliot
From `A Retrospect' 1918 From Preface to Remy de Gourmont's The Natural Philosophy of Love 1926
373
9
Ezra Pound
From `Notes on Thought and Vision' 1919
382
4
H. D.
From `Warsaw' 1922
386
2
Alfred Doblin
`Recent German Poetry' 1922
388
3
Herman Hesse
`The Moment: Summer's Night' 1927 From `Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown' 1924 From `Modern Fiction' 1919
391
6
Virginia Woolf
Letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 15 August 1925
397
2
James Joyce
From `The Influence of Mr. James Joyce' 1921
399
2
Richard Aldington
From `Ulysses: ein Monolog' 1932
401
2
Carl Jung
From James Joyce and the Making of `Ulysses' 1934
403
2
Frank Budgen
Letter to A. W. McLeod, 2 June 1914 From letter to Edward Garnett, 5 June 1914 From Preface to the American edition of New Poems 1929
405
6
D. H. Lawrence
From Introduction to The New Negro 1925
411
6
Alain Locke
From `The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain' 1926
417
4
Langston Hughes
From `Composition as Explanation' 1926
421
4
Gertrude Stein
From `English Ascendancy in British Literature' 1931
425
4
Hugh MacDiarmid
`New Poetry since 1912' 1926
429
4
Marianne Moore
From Modernist Poetry 1926
433
6
Robert Graves
Laura (Riding) Jackson
From `Echoes of the Jazz Age' 1931
439
4
F. Scott Fitzgerald
From Being Geniuses Together 1920--1930 1938
443
5
Robert McAlmon
`A Litter to Mr. James Joyce' 1929
448
1
Vladimir Dixon
From `Dante...Bruno. Vico..Joyce' 1929 From Proust 1931
449
8
Samuel Beckett
IIIb The 1930s: Modernist regroupings
From `The Mass Ornament' 1927
457
4
Siegfried Kracauer
From `The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research' 1931
461
4
Max Horkheimer
From `The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre' 1930
465
5
Bertolt Brecht
`Theatre and Cruelty' 1933
470
2
Antonin Artaud
From `The Dissection of the Psychical Personality' 1933
472
5
Sigmund Freud
`Some Notes on Violence' 1932 `Some Notes on Miss L.' 1933
477
2
Nathanael West
From The Word `Woman' 1934--35
479
6
Laura (Riding) Jackson
Foreword to Pilgrimage 1938
485
3
Dorothy M. Richardson
From A Hope for Poetry 1934
488
5
Cecil Day Lewis
From The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism 1933
493
3
T. S. Eliot
From `Prefatio Aut Cimicium Tumulus' 1933
496
6
Ezra Pound
From New Bearings in English Poetry 1932
502
2
F. R. Leavis
Review of Leavis et al. 1933 From Introduction to The Poet's Tongue 1935
504
4
W. H. Auden
From Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892--1935 1936
508
5
W. B. Yeats
From Introduction to The Faber Book of Modern Verse 1936
513
5
Michael Roberts
From `The Irrational Element in Poetry' 1936
518
5
Wallace Stevens
From The Strange Death of Liberal England 1935
523
1
George Dangerfield
From speech at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers 1934
524
2
Andrei Zhdanov
From `What is Revolutionary Art?' 1935
526
3
Herbert Read
`All Art Is Propaganda' 1935
529
1
Eric Gill
From `The Writers Take Sides' 1935
530
6
Christina Stead
`Note', A Scots Quair 1932--34
536
1
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
From `Lewis Grassic Gibbon' 1935--36
536
3
James Barke
`Scotland a Nation' 1935--36
539
3
Neil M. Gunn
From `Recent Problems of Revolutionary Literature' 1935
542
3
William Phillips
Philip Rahv
`The Writer as Technician' 1935
545
3
John Dos Passos
From `Left?' 1933--34
548
3
John Cornford
From `A Dialectic Approach to Film Form' 1929
551
5
Sergei Eisenstein
From `Documents' 1937
556
4
Storm Jameson
From speech inaugurating the `Great Exhibition of German Art', Munich 1937
560
3
Adolf Hitler
From `Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia' 1929 From `The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 1936
563
14
Walter Benjamin
From letter to Walter Benjamin, 18 March 1936 From `On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening' 1938
577
7
Theodor Adorno
From `Realism in the Balance' 1938
584
7
George Lukacs
From The Principle of Hope 1938--47
591
4
Ernst Bloch
From `Letter from the Front Line in Spain' 1938
595
2
David Alfaro Siqueiros
`Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art' 1938
597
4
Andre Breton
Leon Trotsky
Diego Rivera
From `Inquiry into the Spirit and Language of the Night' 1938
601
4
Eugene Jolas
From `Inside the Whale' 1933
605
5
George Orwell
From `The Leaning Tower' 1940
610
7
Virginia Woolf
From `How ``Bigger'' Was Born' 1940
617
2
Richard Wright
Copyright acknowledgements
619
4
Index
623