The Sun Maid Raisins Play Book by B Alison Weir

The Sun Maid Raisins Play Book by B Alison Weir

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 elitist. Instead, it trends toward simplicity, directness, and common culture. Dowden argues that naïveté rather than highbrow sophistication was for the modernists a key artistic principle. He demonstrates that modernism, far from glorifying subjective creativity, directs itself toward healing the split between subject and object. Mimesis closes this gap by resolving representation into play and festivity.

Allison Weir is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies in the University of Western Sydney's Doctoral Program in Political and Social Thought, as well as a member of the University of Sydney's Institute for Democracy and Human Rights. SacrificialLogics: Feminist Theory and the Criticism of Identity is her first book.