The problem with pleasure : modernism and its discontents /
In 1923, Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern pleasure," or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible delights that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically rede...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In 1923, Aldous Huxley decried "the horrors of modern pleasure," or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible delights that could degrade or dull the mind. He and his contemporaries, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, and Jean Rhys, sought to radically redefine pleasure, constructing arduous and indirect paths to delight through their notoriously daunting work. Laura Frost follows these experiments in the art of unpleasure, connecting modernism's signature characteristics, such as irony, allusiveness, and obscurity, to an ambitious attempt to reconfigure bliss. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231526466 (electronic bk.) 9780231526463 (electronic bk.) |