How Long to Read The Public Face of Modernism

How Long Does it Take to Read The Public Face of Modernism?

It takes the average reader 5 hours to read The Public Face of Modernism by Mark S. Morrisson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Between the 1890s and the 1920s, mass consumer culture and modernism grew up together, by most accounts as mutual antagonists. This provocative work of cultural history tells a different story. By delving deeply into the publishing and promotional practices of the modernists in Britain and America, however, Mark Morrisson reveals that their engagements with the commercial mass market were in fact extensive and diverse. The phenomenal successes of new advertising agencies and mass market publishers did elicit what Morrisson calls a "crisis of publicity" for some modernists and for many concerned citizens in both countries. But, as Morrisson demonstrates, the vast influence of these industries on consumers also had a profound and largely overlooked effect upon many modernist authors, artists, and others. By exploring the publicity and audience reception of several of the most important modernist magazines of the period, The Public Face of Modernism shows how modernists, far from lamenting the destruction of meaningful art and public culture by the new mass market, actually displayed optimism about the power of mass-market technologies and strategies to transform and rejuvenate contemporary culture--and, above all, to restore a public function to art. This reconstruction of the "public face of modernism" offers surprising new perceptions about the class, gender, racial, and even generational tensions within the public culture of the early part of the century, and provides a rare insight into the actual audiences for modernist magazines of the period. Moreover, in new readings of works by James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Morrisson shows that these contexts also had an impact on the techniques and concerns of the literature itself.

How long is The Public Face of Modernism?

The Public Face of Modernism by Mark S. Morrisson is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Public Face of Modernism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read The Public Face of Modernism aloud.

What Reading Level is The Public Face of Modernism?

The Public Face of Modernism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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