Format:
1 Online-Ressource (209 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783631878699
,
9783631878705
Series Statement:
Britannia vol. 20
Content:
Modernism in British arts, literature and philosophy is manifest as a unique thingaround and after 1900. This paradigm shift in all arts and modern science madetraditional beliefs, norms, and social patterns obsolete. Forerunners were 19th-centuryintellectuals, who favoured a new and lively spiritual culture. A new concept ofreality not only changed the view of nature (atomic physics) but also the structureand gist of literature. As the belief in the visible world declined, consciousness andsymbolism (surface and depth structures) occupied the focus of attention. Literaturebecame an autonomous field. From artistic subjectivity modernism led the way tocrystallizing creations of complex imaginative structures. Simultaneously, neorealismin philosophy and relativity in physics substituted a worn-out mechanistic worldpicture by a scientific reality reaching far beyond the visible world.
Note:
Preface — Modernist Aesthetics: Late 19th and Early 20th Century England — Modernism and Modernities — Vitalism, Empiricism, and the Quest for Reality in English and German Philosophy — Understanding Foreign Culture as an Integral Part of British Studies — List of first prints — Bibliography .
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631874059
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Klein, Jürgen, 1945 - On modernism Berlin : Peter Lang, 2022 ISBN 9783631874059
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Moderne
;
Geschichte 1900-1930
;
Moderne
;
Philosophie
Author information:
Klein, Jürgen 1945-
