{"product_id":"what-ever-happened-to-modernism","title":"What Ever Happened to Modernism?","description":"\u003cp\u003eA personal  penetrating  and polemical account of what Modernism is and how contemporary literature has failed it  The quality of todays literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici  the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointinga poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile and passionate book asks why. Modernism  Josipovici suggests  is only superficially a reaction to industrialization or a revolution in diction and form; essentially  it is art coming to consciousness of its own limits and responsibilities. And its origins are to be sought not in 1850 or 1800  but in the early 1500s  with the crisis of society and perception that also led to the rise of Protestantism. With sophistication and persuasiveness  Josipovici charts some of Modernisms key stages  from Drer  Rabelais  and Cervantes to the present  bringing together a rich array of artists  musicians  and writers both familiar and unexpectedincluding Beckett  Borges  Friedrich  Czanne  Stevens  Robbe-Grillet  Beethoven  and Wordsworth. He concludes with a stinging attack on the current literary scene in Britain and America  which raises questions about not only national taste  but contemporary culture itself. Gabriel Josipovici has spent a lifetime writing  and writing about other writers. What Ever Happened to Modernism? is a strident call to arms  and a tour de force of literary  artistic  and philosophical explication that will stimulate anyone interested in art in the twentieth century and today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965329862709,"sku":"ByrdShop_030017800X","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300178005.jpg?v=1770493004","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-ever-happened-to-modernism","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}