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by Modris Eksteins
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Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Dazzling in its originality Rites of Spring probes the origins impact and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinskys ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945 Recognizing that 8220The Great War was the psychological turning point for modernism as a whole8221 author Modris Eksteins examines the lives of ordinary people works of modern literature and pivotal historical events to redefine the way we look at our past and toward our future Rites of Spring The Great War and The Birth of the Modern Rites of Spring the Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age Eksteins 2000 starts his book by arguing that the First World War began as a clash between two great cultural ideas One was the conservative culture based on Enlightenment and Romantic ideals and represented mainly by England and France Eksteins 49 Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age 42 out of 5 based on 0 ratings 6 reviews Rites of Spring is a very interesting analysis of art and culture and the Great War and Dr Eksteins is a quite talented prose stylist but the OCR of the Nook book is disgraceful The Rites Of Spring The Great War And Birth Of The Modris Eksteins who was born in Latvia and immigrated to Canada as a young child with his parents and sister in the 1950s published the Rites of Spring The Great War and Birth of the Modern Age in 1989 and the work has since been named one of the best one hundred books published in Canada by The Literary Review of Canada Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age Modris Eksteins Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt HMH 2495 396p ISBN 9780395498569 More By and About This Author Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places In this bold and fertile book Atlantic Monthly Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age Having read and enjoyed Paul Fussels The Great War and Modern Memory I came to Modris Eksteins’ The Rites Of Spring and discovered another great work of cultural history that both augmented and complemented Fussels book The author transports the reader by demonstrating the advent of the modern through a mood laced with death movement irony rebellion and inwardness
