Satirizing Modernism - by Emmett Stinson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Satirizing Modernism</i> examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's <i>The Apes of God</i>, William Gaddis's <i>The Recognitions</i>, and Gilbert Sorrentino's <i>Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things</i>-were under-recognized and received poor reviews at the time of publication, but have increasingly been acknowledged as both groundbreaking and deeply influential. <i>Satirizing Modernism</i> analyzes these novels in order to present an alternative account of literary modernism, which should be viewed neither as a radical break with the past nor an outmoded set of aesthetics overtaken by a later postmodernism. In self-reflexively critiquing their own aesthetics, these works express an unconventional modernism that both revises literary history and continues to be felt today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An invigorating re-assessment of modernism's susceptibility to its own formal and thematic critiques, rivalries, and negations, one that charts with interpretive flair new ways to think about the political and aesthetic implications of autonomy. This is a must-read book not only for scholars of modernism in general but also for scholars working on the experimental writers Stinson foregrounds (Wyndham Lewis, William Gaddis, and Gilbert Sorrentino). It is an exceptionally judicious reconsideration of the limits and possibilities of an essential emphasis in cultural history.<br/>Nathan Waddell, Assistant Professor in Literary Modernism, University of Nottingham, UK<br><br>Satires that relentlessly satirize themselves; artworks that assert their own autonomy only ruthlessly to undermine it. In Emmett Stinson's dazzling account, Romantic and avant-garde satires emerge as forms intent on demolishing the grounds on which they stand in the pursuit of an impossible vision of autonomy from every external value. Dexterously argued, deeply researched, and forcefully written, <i>Satirizing Modernism</i> reveals an extended modernist lineage never more itself than when most at odds with itself.<br/>Paul Crosthwaite, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK<br><br>Stinson is compelling when he suggests that modernist literature may always be mocking the values to which it simultaneously subscribes.<br/>Times Literary Supplement<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Emmett Stinson</b> is Lecturer in Literature and Writing at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author, with Richard Pennell and Pam Pryde, of <i>Banning Islamic Books in Australia </i>(2011). He is also editor of <i>By the Book? Contemporary Publishing in Australia</i> (2013).
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