1922: Literature, tradition, Politics examines key points of tradition and heritage in 1922, a yr made well-known through the book of a number of modernist masterpieces, resembling T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses. person chapters written through major students supply new contexts for the year's major artistic endeavors, philosophy, politics, and literature. 1922 additionally analyzes either the political and highbrow forces that formed the cultural interactions of that privileged second. even though this quantity takes post-World conflict I Europe as its leader concentration, American artists and authors additionally obtain considerate attention. In its multiplicity of perspectives, 1922 demanding situations misconceptions in regards to the 'Lost Generation' of cultural pilgrims who flocked to Paris and Berlin within the Nineteen Twenties, hence stressing the broader effect of that momentous yr.
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There was of course the productive month of February when Rilke penned the last Duino Elegies and most of the Sonnets to Orpheus. We cannot omit Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah, and also the surprising emergence of Albert Cohen’s first texts. Willa Cather was right when she observed in her prefatory note to Not under Forty (1936) that “the world broke in two in 1922, or thereabouts” (1988, i). Unhappily, she felt that the watershed moment did not apply to her own work, believing as she did that she belonged to the camp of the “backward” – along with luminaries like Thomas Mann, who, she sensed, tried to remain on both sides of the divide.
S. Eliot wrote to his brother Henry explaining that “[t]he Criterion is to appear next Monday, and you will doubtless receive your copy almost as soon as this letter. It has been a heavier undertaking than I anticipated, but I think that the result, so far as the first number is concerned, is satisfactory” (1988, 580). ”1 Yet during the course of the magazine’s existence, Eliot proved to have an uncanny ability for finding and publishing an extraordinarily wide range of contemporary British and international writers who remain important today, while he strove to make the magazine a forum for both literary and cultural critique by publishing short fiction, poems, literary criticism, and reviews, alongside political and cultural commentary.
In this way, in this book, all the elements are constantly melting into each other, and the illusion of life, of the thing in the act, is complete: the whole is movement. S. Eliot, the Criterion (1967, 96). S. Eliot wrote to his brother Henry explaining that “[t]he Criterion is to appear next Monday, and you will doubtless receive your copy almost as soon as this letter. It has been a heavier undertaking than I anticipated, but I think that the result, so far as the first number is concerned, is satisfactory” (1988, 580).