Modernism and Mimesis
D. Dowden, Stephen![Modernism and Mimesis](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/376/37650579/CHSBZCOP0337650579.jpg)
This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked. Dowden shows that modernism, contrary to a longstanding view, did not turn away from mimesis. Rather, modernism operates according to a deepened understanding of what mimesis is and how it works, which in turn occasions a fresh look at other related dimensions of the modernist achievement. Modernism is neither "difficult" nor el...