| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Tyrus Miller. Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 263. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

In the conventional narrative of Western literary history, postmodernism emerges out of modernism and replaces the formal unity and self-reflexivity of the modernist text with the dissonance and epistemological uncertainty of postmodern visions. But what if, as Tyrus Miller proposes, we analyze modernist fiction "from the perspective of its end" sometime around the interwar period? We avoid the now overly schematized division between modern and postmodern derived from a mainstream critical focus on high modernism and the early avant-garde, one that uses the criteria developed by modernists themselves to define the thematic and historical unity of the genre: Ezra Pound's imperative to "make it new," for example, and a concentration on the aesthetics of formal mastery (p. 5). That traditional focus ignores French writing of the 1930s as well as a number of English and American writers who defy classification in such terms. . . .

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