Modernism Beyond the Avant-Garde(English, Hardcover, Baskin Jason M.)

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Modernism Beyond the Avant-Garde(English, Hardcover, Baskin Jason M.) is written by Baskin Jason M. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108423396 (ISBN 10) and 9781108423397 (ISBN 13).

Critics have traditionally maintained that capitalism's resurgence after the Second World War precipitated the transition from modernism to postmodernism. This revisionist account shows that modernism does not simply decline. By foregrounding phenomenological conceptions of bodily experience, Jason M. Baskin reveals modernism's ongoing vitality. Key postwar writers, critics and philosophers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Ralph Ellison and Raymond Williams, as well as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno, developed an aesthetics of embodiment that adapted modernism to a new postwar landscape. Working across differences of race, gender, national and intellectual tradition, genre and form, Baskin contends that these authors used ordinary bodily experiences, such as perception, memory and laughter, to imagine modes of common being and purpose that were otherwise unavailable in a postwar society dominated by liberal capitalism.