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• catalog abstract "In 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. A 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. His 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. Examining 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. Through 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. Modernism 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."".
• catalog contributor b8241640.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "A 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. His 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.".
• catalog description "Examining 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. Through 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. Modernism 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."".
• catalog description "In 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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Contexts: 1. Mass minds and modernist forms : political, aesthetic, and psychological theories -- 2. The unconscious enters history : working-class women in To the lighthouse, Ulysses, and The strange death of Liberal England -- pt. 2. Fearing the masses: 3. Leaving the self at home : The voyage out -- 4. "The mob part of the mind" : sexuality and immigrant politics in the early poems of T.S. Eliot -- 5. A portrait of the artist as a young fascist : Gabriele D'Annunzio's political influence on James Joyce -- pt. 3. Joining the masses: 6. "The birth of a new species of man ... from terror" : Yeats's poetics of violence -- 7. Movements unconscious of their destiny : the culture of the masses in The waste land -- 8. Social(ist) institutions in Ulysses -- 9. Ideology and literary form in The waves.".
• catalog extent "viii, 284 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0804725160 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "820.9/1 20".
• catalog subject "Collective behavior in literature.".
• catalog subject "Crowds in literature.".
• catalog subject "Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 Political and social views.".
• catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Political and social views.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
• catalog subject "PR478.P64 T73 1995".
• catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Popular culture Great Britain History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Political and social views.".
• catalog subject "Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Political and social views.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Contexts: 1. Mass minds and modernist forms : political, aesthetic, and psychological theories -- 2. The unconscious enters history : working-class women in To the lighthouse, Ulysses, and The strange death of Liberal England -- pt. 2. Fearing the masses: 3. Leaving the self at home : The voyage out -- 4. "The mob part of the mind" : sexuality and immigrant politics in the early poems of T.S. Eliot -- 5. A portrait of the artist as a young fascist : Gabriele D'Annunzio's political influence on James Joyce -- pt. 3. Joining the masses: 6. "The birth of a new species of man ... from terror" : Yeats's poetics of violence -- 7. Movements unconscious of their destiny : the culture of the masses in The waste land -- 8. Social(ist) institutions in Ulysses -- 9. Ideology and literary form in The waves.".
• catalog title "Modernism and mass politics : Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats / Michael Tratner.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".