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050 00 $aPR478.P64$bT73 1995
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100 1 $aTratner, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88299879
245 10 $aModernism and mass politics :$bJoyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats /$cMichael Tratner.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $aviii, 284 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tMass Minds and Modernist Forms: Political, Aesthetic, and Psychological Theories --$g2.$tThe Unconscious Enters History: Working-Class Women in To the Lighthouse, Ulysses, and The Strange Death of Liberal England --$g3.$tLeaving the Self at Home: The Voyage Out --$g4.$t"The Mob Part of the Mind": Sexuality and Immigrant Politics in the Early Poems of T. S. Eliot --$g5.$tA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fascist: Gabriele D'Annunzio's Political Influence on James Joyce --$g6.$t"The Birth of a New Species of Man... from Terror": Yeats's Poetics of Violence --$g7.$tMovements Unconscious of Their Destiny: The Culture of the Masses in The Waste Land --$g8.$tSocial(ist) Institutions in Ulysses --$g9.$tIdeology and Literary Form in The Waves.
520 $aIn the first two decades of the twentieth century, a new phenomenon swept politics: the masses. Groups that had struggled as marginal parts of the political system - particularly workers and women - suddenly exploded into vast and seemingly unstoppable movements.
520 8 $aA whole subgenre of sociological-political treatises purporting to analyze the mass mind emerged all over Europe, particularly in England. All these texts drew heavily on the theories put forth in The Crowd, written in 1895 by the French writer Gustave Le Bon and translated into English in 1897. Le Bon developed the idea that when a crowd forms, a whole new kind of mentality, hovering on the borderline of unconsciousness, replaces the conscious personalities of individuals.
520 8 $aHis descriptions should seem uncanny to literary critics, because they sound as if he were describing modernist literary techniques, such as the focus on images and the "stream of consciousness." Equally important was Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence (1906), which sought to turn Le Bon's theories into a methodology for producing mass movements by invoking the importance of myth to theories of the mass mind.
520 8 $aExamining in detail the surprising similarities between modernist literature and contemporary theories of the crowd, this work upsets many critical commonplaces concerning the character of literary modernism.
520 8 $aThrough careful reading of major works of the novelists Joyce and Woolf (traditionally viewed as politically leftist) and the poets Eliot and Yeats (traditionally viewed as politically to the right), it shows that many modernist literary forms in all these authors emerged out of efforts to write in the idiom of the crowd mind.
520 8 $aModernism was not a rejection of mass culture, but rather an effort to produce a mass culture, perhaps for the first time - to produce a culture distinctive to the twentieth century, which Le Bon called "The Era of the Crowd."
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103188
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109615
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107007
650 0 $aPopular culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109784
600 10 $aJoyce, James,$d1882-1941$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aWoolf, Virginia,$d1882-1941$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107889
650 0 $aCrowds in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004496
852 00 $bglx$hPR478.P64$iT73 1995
852 00 $bglx$hPR478.P64$iT73 1995