Screen LibraryRethinking G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism : parody, performance, and popular culture. /
"This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chester...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Literary texts and the popular marketplace ;
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| Summary: |
"This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton{u2019}s advocacy of popular culture and modernist literature{u2019}s appeal to an aesthetic elite. In setting out to challenge this binary narrative, Shallcross establishes for the first time the depth and ambivalence of Chesterton{u2019}s engagement with modernism, as well as the reciprocal fascin |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-283) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138678736 1138678732 |
| Index Number: | PR4453 |
| CLC: | I561.065 |
| Call Number: | I561.065/S528 |
| Contents: | Introduction: sublime vulgarity, fanatical play -- The Chesterbentley: a fin-de-siecle nonsense friendship -- The ethics of travesty: Chesterton's ludicrous performance on the Edwardian literary stage -- A hundred visions and revisions: Chesterton refracted through the avant-garde of 1910 -- We discharge ourselves on both sides: the parodic commerce of Chesterton and the men of 1914 -- Le mob c'est moi: 1920's modernism as monstrous carnival -- Audacious reconciliation: the human circulating library of late modernism. |