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Article: North, Michael. 1999. Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern. New York: Oxford University Press. $48.75 hc. vii + 269 pp.(Review)
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- March 22, 2001
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Reading 1922 should solidify Michael North's reputation as one of today's most learned, engaging, and insightful students of modernism. The author of studies of Yeats and Pound as well as the groundbreaking work The Dialect of Modernism (1994), North turns his attention here to a crucial year in the history of modernism. He aims to recover the complexity of the cultural moment epitomized by 1922 from the cultural amnesia fostered, on the one hand, by decades of formalist criticism and, on the other, by a postmodernist reaction to the modernism reified by that criticism. Far from being the product of an elite group of geniuses creating an esoteric, autonomous "art" that ...
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