1913

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky Explores Pounds Personae next to Apollinaires Alcools and Rilkes Spanish Trilogy, Edith Whartons The Custom of the Country next to Prousts Swanns Way