On the Cusp: Stephen Crane, George Bellows, and Modernism (Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0817316515 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Fagg focuses his discussion by alternating chapters on Crane and Bellows, along the way explaining how the writer and artist used such techniques/modes as ellipsis, anecdote, aphorism, and cliché. The author shows both to represent the transitional period between American realism and naturalism, in literature and the visual arts, and the incipient modernism. Applying literary theory in an accessible way, this book is a welcome addition to the literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended. He argues that the work of both m
By identifying analogous formal and thematic concerns in painting and literature, Fagg offers a broad conception of cultural and aesthetic change that transcends the specifics of either medium. Chapter Two, for example, locates the narrative form of the “anecdote” in Bellows’s depictions of New York scenes, highlighting the ways painting isolates and relays “small stories.” Re-crossing the disciplinary divide, Chapter Three uses the visual metaphor of narrative “framing” to probe Crane’s New York sketches. The writer Stephen Crane (1871–1900) and the painter George Bellows (1882–1925) each wrestled with issues specific to their own fields. Crane’s and Bellows’s comparable traits, and their complex relationship to modernism, are cast in terms of a wider cultural response to the urban environment, the mass media, and other modern developments circa 1900.. But both also have much in common: their works contain residual traces of earlier idioms, register the growing influence of mass culture, and pre-empt the formal strategies and experiments pursued by later modernists.John Fagg tells their s