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- catalog abstract """Cult of ugliness," Ezra Pound's phrase, powerfully summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T.E. Hulme - the self-styled "Men of 1914"--Responded to the "horrid or sordid or disgusting" conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practice. Only the representation of "ugliness," they protested, would produce the new, truly "beautiful" work of art. They dissociated the beautiful from its traditional embodiment in female beauty, and from its association with Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. In the process, the cultivation of ugliness displaced misogyny and homophobia. Higgins takes in texts such as John Ruskin's art criticism, Eliot's literary journalism, Lewis's pro-fascism pamphlets, and the poetry of Pound and William Carlos Williams. She demonstrates that even vigorous champions of beauty were committed to aesthetic practices that disempowered female figures in order to articulate new truths of male artistic mastery."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12559745.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description """Cult of ugliness," Ezra Pound's phrase, powerfully summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T.E. Hulme - the self-styled "Men of 1914"--Responded to the "horrid or sordid or disgusting" conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practice. Only the representation of "ugliness," they protested, would produce the new, truly "beautiful" work of art. They dissociated the beautiful from its traditional embodiment in female beauty, and from its association with Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. In the process, the cultivation of ugliness displaced misogyny and homophobia.".
- catalog description "Higgins takes in texts such as John Ruskin's art criticism, Eliot's literary journalism, Lewis's pro-fascism pamphlets, and the poetry of Pound and William Carlos Williams. She demonstrates that even vigorous champions of beauty were committed to aesthetic practices that disempowered female figures in order to articulate new truths of male artistic mastery."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-303) and index.".
- catalog description "The trials of beauty : Ruskin, Whistler, and a "new series of truths" -- No time for Pater : breaking the homophobic silence -- Diagnosis, hate, and masculine difference : delineating the "cult of ugliness" -- "O city city" : gendered topographies in modern American poetry.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 312 p., [6] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0312240376".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog subject "111/.85 21".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, Modern.".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "BH301.U5 H54 2002".
- catalog subject "Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Gender identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 Aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Ugliness in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ugliness.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The trials of beauty : Ruskin, Whistler, and a "new series of truths" -- No time for Pater : breaking the homophobic silence -- Diagnosis, hate, and masculine difference : delineating the "cult of ugliness" -- "O city city" : gendered topographies in modern American poetry.".
- catalog title "The modernist cult of ugliness : aesthetic and gender politics / Lesley Higgins.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".