MODERNISM: THE LURE OF HERESY: FROM BAUDELAIRE TO BECKETT AND BEYOND by Peter Gay, WILLIAM HEINEMANN edn, Untermed
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PETER GAY (1923–2015)
“Rich, learned, briskly wrten, madng yet necsary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Tim Book Review Peter Gay explor the shockg mornist rebelli.. * peter gay modernism pdf *
Proceedg by way of reprentative episos and bgraphi of s leadg men— his tellg, mornism was largely a male phenomenon––Gay rang om the Imprsnism of Mo to the Cubism of Pisso to the Abstract Exprsnism of Pollock, om Henry Jam to Jam Joyce, om Arnold Schoenberg to John Cage. Such moments have been tamed by s of study and cultural assiatn, and Gay don’t really brg anythg new to this work of synthis; for all the darg of the figur who tert him, there are no dangero ias lurkg on his pag.
PETER J. GAY PAPERS
Peter Gay’s Mornism: The Lure of Hery om Blaire to Beckett and Beyond – Matthew Price * peter gay modernism pdf *
”) A rpected social historian whose works clu an acclaimed bgraphy of Frd and a five-volume epic on the Victorian bourgeoisie, Gay acknowledg many shas of opn wh mornism, s sundry ntradictns and paradox, but propos a general theory of the movement: “Mornists of all strip shared two fg attribut... Lookg at the work of a seri of exemplary figur—Nietzsche, Wil, Blaire, whom Gay lls “mornism’s first hero”—he trac a sharp ward turn and a relentls vtigatn of the self and s relatnship to nature, the past, social nventn, and the weight of tradn. Gay argu that the search for the “ner life and s felico portrayal” lks the artists to other ventur—Mallarmé and Debsy were up to siar thgs—but he don’t let all the foggy self-absorptn bld him to the social and polil ntexts of his story.
”Footnote 3 By mid-1937, Gay's parents had formed a plan to move the fay om Berl to Florida, where an uncle lived wh his Amerin wife, but the events of 1938 ratcheted up the prsure even further. Footnote 5 In the meantime, Gay explored the entertaments of Havana and worked on his English, polishg his prose at the Havana Bs Amy (to which he received a scholarship) and vourg Amerin perdils like Time, Collier's, and the Saturday Eveng Post.
Peter Gay (1923–2015) - Volume 49 Issue 1 * peter gay modernism pdf *
Jt weeks after arrivg Colorado, Gay's fay applied for Amerin cizenship, and, followg the example of a who had immigrated several years earlier, they Amerinized their first, middle, and last nam. This was ma possible by the terventn of Gay's former high school English teacher, Helen Hunter, who worked out a plan to allow Gay to fish his high school gree by pletg a private urse wh her on William Shakpeare.
Dennis Kle, Assiatn and Dissiatn: Peter Gay's Frd, Jews and Other Germans: Masters and Victims Mornist Culture, New German Crique, No. 19, Special Issue 1: Germans and Jews (Wter, 1980), pp. 151-165 * peter gay modernism pdf *
Lookg back years later, Gay nsired fortuo that he had spent the early years “Middle Ameri, ” a place where was possible to pe the ncerns of the German immigrant muny and bee fully (or at least mostly) “Amerinized.