Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, CultureJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 331 pages David Kadlec examines the anarchist and pragmatist origins of modernism as a literary/cultural phenomenon. Offering an account of modernism's political genesis, he shows that the mosaic, improvisational tendencies of modern literature shared a common ancestry with emerging conceptions of cultural identity. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Mosaic Modernism | 8 |
Imagism and the Gold Standard | 54 |
Copyright | |
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