I'm trying to catch up on 150 years of literature and literary theory. Now I'm listening to the Teaching Company audio course, Literary Modernism by Jeffrey Perl. It uses a division by Frank Kermode of modernists into paleomodernists (TS Eliot, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Ezra Pound, DH Lawrence, the late Yeats) and neomodernists (Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf).

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I'm taking a class on literary theory from a local university. It turned to say a very little about how to write (one short essay by Poe), a bit more about theories of how art works (Aristotle, Addison, Burke, and the New Critics), and still more about post-modern linguistics and theory. But half of the course is about politics which literary theorists today oppose (capitalism, patriarchy, and white hegemony).

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I just listened to Perl's lecture on modernism and politics, and also, by chance, read part of a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald called On Booze, which both cast light on the strange politics of literary modernists in the 1930s.

This post is poorly-organized, slightly cracked, and probably a waste of time. If you're not curious about the symbiosis between modernism and extremist politics, skip it.

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So, the following blog post is, at least partially based on the writings of others. Primarily, I recommend you peruse SoloBrony’s (unfortunately incomplete) writing on art under ADPA. I must also acknowledge that GhostofHeraclitus wrote a blogpost that has a similar theme in addressing the same problem. I recommend that, after you read this, you follow

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