Mediterranean Modernism
Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development
Nonfiction, History, Modern, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781137586568 | |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | August 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781137586568 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | August 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions**.** The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial.** **
This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions**.** The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial.** **
