Modernism and Style

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Series Editor Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 19
List of Abbreviations......Page 20
From ‘pure style’ to purely style......Page 22
Style and form......Page 29
Modernist criticism and style......Page 34
‘Saturated with style’......Page 61
Arthur Schopenhauer and the symbolist‘ will to style’......Page 66
Friedrich Nietzsche and ‘the art of style’......Page 80
2 1857: Literary Beginnings......Page 102
Gustave Flaubert and ‘les affres du style’......Page 110
Charles Baudelaire and ‘le style nerveux’......Page 122
Prose poetry, stream of consciousness, interior monologue......Page 138
‘Une écriture blanche’? Edouard Dujardin, Les Lauriers sont coupés......Page 141
Decadent style and the death-drive......Page 146
Thomas Mann and ‘stylistic and formal talent’......Page 151
Marcel Proust and the ‘palimpsest’ of style......Page 156
Ulysses and ‘the English styles’......Page 163
‘Women’s writing’ and the ‘disease’ of style......Page 170
‘Beyond language’: the late modernist novel......Page 174
4 1922: Style and the Modernist Lyric......Page 177
Paul Valéry and ‘absolute poetry’......Page 178
R.M. Rilke and Orphic style......Page 195
T.S. Eliot and ‘the style of direct speech’......Page 207
5 The ‘Alibi’ of Style: Modernist Manifestos......Page 218
‘Style without rhetoric’? From Le Problème du style to The Flowers of Tarbes......Page 220
Filippo Marinetti, ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’ (1909)......Page 230
Mina Loy, ‘Feminist Manifesto’ (1914)......Page 234
Ezra Pound, ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’ (1913)......Page 238
Tristan Tzara, ‘Dada Manifesto’ (1918)......Page 242
Kurt Pinthus, ‘Foreword’ to Menschheitsdämmerung (1919)......Page 247
André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto (1924) and Louis Aragon, Treatise on Style (1928)......Page 252
Conclusion......Page 260
Notes......Page 266
Bibliography......Page 297
Index......Page 308