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Article: Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900-1916.
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- December 1, 1995
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This book is just the sort of text to place in the hands of an advanced undergraduate, graduate student, or interested reader embarking on a study of modernism. Accurate and up-to-date, this study offers a comprehensive picture of the modernist impulse in its shared expression and techniques in various media. Christopher Butler conceives of early modernism as an ensemble in which the media mutually influence one another. This is cultural history that maps the parameters of early modernism by selecting the nodal themes, sites, and major works as illustrations.
Based on a course he teaches at Oxford, Butler has produced a text that serves as a summa of what the field ...