{"product_id":"waking-giants-herbert-n-schneidau-9780195068627","title":"Waking Giants: The Presence of the Past in Modernism","description":"This is a study of the most paradoxical aspect of modernism, its obsession with the past. Eliot wrote that the artist must be conscious \"not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.\" This creed permeated the movement: Modernists believed that the energies of the past could be resurrected in modern works, and that they could be the very force that makes those works modern: the urge of Pound and others to \"make it new\" stemmed from seeing the past as a source of renewal. Schneidau focuses on separate texts that incorporate these concepts: Joyce's \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e, Hardy's poems, Forster's \u003cem\u003eHowards End\u003c\/em\u003e, Conrad's \u003cem\u003eSecret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e, Sherwood Anderson's \u003cem\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/em\u003e, and finally Pound's \u003cem\u003eCantos\u003c\/em\u003e. In his discussions, many little-noticed connections are examined, including a transatlantic set: Hardy with Pound, Forster with Fitzgerald, Joyce and Lawrence with Anderson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herbert N. Schneidau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195068629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195068627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 5.88w x 0.94d","brand":"Herbert N. Schneidau","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419005436159,"sku":"9780195068627","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_76e3afee-6b04-4d91-af9a-c3c56d92e6b1.jpg?v=1761508866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waking-giants-herbert-n-schneidau-9780195068627","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}