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analyzing complex literary texts
apologists
art
Author_Leonard Diepeveen
avant-garde aesthetics
canon
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Cather's Work
Cather’s Work
conceptual
Conceptual Metaphors
cultural criticism
Cyril Alington
Deceptive Simplicity
Difficult Art
Difficult Modernism
Difficult Text
Difficult Writing
difficulty
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Federal Plaza
Finnegans Wake
high
High Modernism
Ho Ho
interpretive strategies
literary theory
London Mercury
louis
Louis Untermeyer
Marianne Moore
Modern Difficulty
Modernism's Apologists
Modernism's Skeptics
modernisms
Modernism’s Apologists
Modernism’s Skeptics
post-Impressionist Exhibition
reader response theory
Squire's Story
Squire’s Story
Surface Difficulty
text
Tilted Arc
twentieth-century literature
untermeyer
Visceral Responses
Wrote Free Verse
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415940689
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained that difficulty was running rampant in literature, that art had become a plague of unintelligibility. Diepeveen argues that the simultaneous appearance of modernism and discussion about difficulty was not coincidental-difficulty allowed modernism to rise to the status of high art, and it was fundamental to how modernism shaped the canon not only of twentieth-century literature, but of the literature that preceded it. He argues that modernism can be best understood as the moment when knowing how to maneuver through difficult art became the central sign of one's ability to participate in high culture.
