T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism

T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism


Yazar Andrzej Gasiorek
Yayınevi Routledge
ISBN 9780754640882
Baskı yılı 2006
Sayfa sayısı 256
Ağırlık 0.54 kg
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Though only 34 years old at the time of his death in 1917, T. E. Hulme had already taken his place at the center of pre-war Londons advanced intellectual circles. His work as poet, critic, philosopher, aesthetician, and political theorist helped define several major aesthetic and political movements, including imagism and Vorticism. Despite his influence, however, the man T. S. Eliot described as classical, reactionary, and revolutionary has until very recently been neglected by scholars, and "T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism" is the first essay collection to offer an in-depth exploration of Hulmes thought. While each essay highlights a different aspect of Hulmes work on the overlapping discourses of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy, taken together they demonstrate a shared belief in Hulmes decisive importance to the emergence of modernism and to the many categories that still govern our thinking about it. In addition to the editors, contributors include Todd Avery, Rebecca Beasley, C. D. Blanton, Helen Carr, Paul Edwards, Jesse Matz, Alan Munton, and Andrew Thacker.
Introduction : on the significance of a Hulmean modernism by Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek 1
1 The imagery of Hulmes poems and notebooks by Paul Edwards 23
2 A language of concrete things : Hulme, imagism and modernist theories of language by Andrew Tracker 39
3 A definite meaning : the art criticism of T. E. Hulme by Rebecca Beasley 57
4 Abstraction, archaism and the future : T. E. Hulme, Jacob Epstein and Wyndham Lewis by Alan Munton 73
5 T. E. Hulme and the spiritual dread of space by Helen Carr 93
6 Hulmes compromise and the new psychologism by Jesse Matz 113
7 Hulme among the progressives by Lee Garver 133
8 Towards a right theory of society? : politics, machine aesthetics, and religion by Andrzej Gasiorek 149
9 Above life : Hulme, Bloomsbury, and two trajectories of ethical anti-humanism by Todd Avery 169
10 The politics of epochality : antinomies of original sin by C. D. Blanton 187
11 Hulmes feelings by Edward P. Comentale 209