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Aesthetic Theory
Aldous Huxley
Ambivalence
Author_Anthony Cuda
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Classicism
Consciousness
Dramatic monologue
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Literary modernism
Melodrama
Modernism
Modernist poetry
Narcissism
Poetry
Postmodernism
Romanticism
Scholasticism
T. S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf
W. B. Yeats
Woolf
Product details
- ISBN 9781570038624
- Weight: 497g
- Dimensions: 157 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2010
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title offers an alternative approach to modernism as confronting helplessness and passivity. Upending the traditional view of modernism as defined by elitism, skepticism, and emotional detachment, Anthony Cuda argues that there is another view beneath this facade, one that emphasizes modernism's deep commitment to understanding human vulnerability, powerlessness, and the unpredictable energies of passion. In ""The Passions of Modernism"", Cuda explores how four modernist writers - T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann - conceptualize passion, how they dramatize its upheavals and illuminations, and how it affects their ideas about the creative act. Resuscitating the classical definition of passion from the Latin passio, 'to be moved' or 'to be acted on', Cuda's study suggests that the modernist attraction to passivity arises from a desire to gauge the limits of the active mind and to rethink psychology, aesthetics, and theories of creativity from the perspective of the moved instead of the mover. Focusing on well-known texts as well as uncollected and archival materials, Cuda sheds new light on four canonical writers by examining their work in terms of 'passion scenes', vivid, intense tropes situated somewhere between exhilaration and terror that recur with insistent regularity over an artist's entire career, exerting an unusual psychological force on the creative mind that conjures them.
Anthony Cuda is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the coeditor of the Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: Volume II, 1919-1925.
