The Orient of Style
Schlossman, Beryl![The Orient of Style](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/183/18300368/CHSBZCOP0318300368.jpg)
In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations of literary representation. She demonstrates that through allegory, modernism became a style itself, a style that married the ancient and the modern and that emerged as both a cause and an effect, both an ideal construct and an textual materiality, ...