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Contemporaries and Snobs by Heffernan, Laura; Malcolm, Jane; Riding, Laura is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Contemporaries and Snobs about?

This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling account—by turns personal, by turns historical—of how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of what the institution of modernism left (and leaves) behind. With Gertrude Stein as its figurehead, the book champions the noncanonical, the “barbaric,” and the undertheorized. Riding's nuanced defense of a poetics of the person in Contemporaries and Snobs represents a forgotten but essential first attempt to identify and foster what is now a well-defined poetic lineage that leads from Stein to the contemporary experimental avant-garde. In these essays, Riding takes her readers on a remarkably thorough tour through the critical scene of the 1920s. Among other influential treatises, she considers T. S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood and

Who reads Contemporaries and Snobs?

Author

Heffernan, Laura; Malcolm, Jane; Riding, Laura

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817357672

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction