tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post113658413011749696..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: The last Modernist?Stephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1138037707976398182006-01-23T17:35:00.000+00:002006-01-23T17:35:00.000+00:00Stephen, I used to find it quite spooky that young...Stephen, I used to find it quite spooky that younger people had to be taught Modernism as though it were history, but when I first read Joyce, Ulysses was already sixty years old. Being Catholic helped me enormously in reading both Ulysses and The Recognitions - the echoes of Dante, European literature and Biblical writing in Beckett are also reasons why journalists choose to ignore modernism. After all they only have a feature length article or less to work this stuff over.<BR/><BR/>I don't know anything about Green -is there any chance Wood may be confusing modernism with social realism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1136657532695198232006-01-07T18:12:00.000+00:002006-01-07T18:12:00.000+00:00Paul, I don't know anything about Burroughs (excep...Paul, I don't know anything about Burroughs (except through the film of The Naked Lunch). How did he use the word?Stephen Mitchelmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1136657454571349062006-01-07T18:10:00.000+00:002006-01-07T18:10:00.000+00:00“the assumption that modernism is an historical ev...<I><BR/>“the assumption that modernism is an historical event rather than a virus at the heart of culture”<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>That, I must say, completely changed the way I looked at Modernism. You are absolutely correct.<BR/><BR/>By virus I assume you mean how William Burroughs used the word?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com