Introduction
A note on presentation

Part I: The Emergence of the Modern

Ia: The modern in cultural, political and scientific thought
1. Karl Marx: From letter to Ruge, September 1843
2. Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels: From The Communist Manifesto 1848
3. Richard Wilhelm Wagner: From 'Art and Revolution' 1849
4. Charles Darwin: From The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1859
5. Johann Jakob Bachofen: From Mother Right 1861
6. Friedrich Nietzsche: From Preface to Human, All Too Human 1878
7. Max Nordau: From Degeneration 1883
8. William Morris: From 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1884
9. H.P.B.: From The Secret Doctrine 1888
10. J. G. Frazer: From The Golden Bough 1890-1915
11. Gustave Le Bon: From The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 1895
12. Thorstein Veblen: From The Theory of the Leisure Class 1899
13. Henry Adams: From The Education of Henry Adams 1907
14. Sigmund Freud: From The Interpretation of Dreams 1900
15. Georg Simmel: From 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' 1903
16. August Bebel: From Woman Under Socialism 1904
17. W. E. B. Dubois: From The Souls of Black Folk 1903
18. Henri Bergson: From Creative Evolution 1907
19. Wilhelm Worringer: From Abstraction and Empathy 1908
20. Adolf Loos: From 'Ornament and Crime' 1908
21. Karl Kraus: 'The Good Conduct Medal' 1909
22. Millicent Garrett Fawcett: From 'Women's Suffrage' 1911
23. Lou Andreas-Salomé: From The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salome 1912, 1913
24. Oswald Spengler: From The Decline of the West 1918-22

Ib: Modern aesthetics
1. Edgar Allan Poe: From review of Nathanial Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1842
2. Walt Whitman: From Preface to Leaves of Grass 1855
3. Gustave Flaubert: From letter to Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie, 18 March 1857
4. Matthew Arnold: From 'On the Modern Element in Literature' 1857
5. Charles Baudelaire: From 'The Painter of Modern Life' 1859-60
6. Arthur Rimbaud: From letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871
7. John Ruskin: From Lectures on Art 1870; From Arartra Pentelici 1872
8. Walter Pater: From Conclusion to The Renaissance [1873] 1893
9. August Strindberg: From Preface to Miss Julie 1888
10. Oscar Wilde: Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890
11. Thomas Hardy: 'The Science of Fiction' 1891
12. Stéphane Mallarmé: From 'Crisis in Poetry' 1886-95
13. Paul Valéry: From 'Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci' 1895
14. Alfred Jarry: 'Preliminary Address at the First Performance of Ubi Roi, 10 December 1896'
15. Joseph Conrad: From Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' 1897
16. Arthur Symons: From The Symbolist Movement in Literature 1899
17. W. B. Yeats: From 'The Symbolism of Poetry' 1900
18. Marcel Proust: From 'Days of Reading: I' 1905
19. William Archer: From 'Henrik Ibsen: Philosopher or Poet' 1905
20. Henry James: From 'The Art of Fiction' 1894; From Preface to The Princess Casamassima 1906
21. Edward Gordon Craig: From 'The Actor and the über-marionette' 1907
22. Isadora Duncan: From My Life 1927
23. George Bernard Shaw: From The Sanity of Art 1908

II: The Avant-Garde

IIa. Formulations and declarations
1. Gustave Courbet: From Realist Manifesto 1855
2. émile Zola: From 'Naturalism on the Stage' 1880
3. Desmond MacCarthy: 'The Post-Impressionists' 1910
4. T.E. Hulme: From 'Romanticism and Classicism' 1911
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: From The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 1911
6. Roger Fry: 'The French Group' 1912
7. Clive Bell: 'The English Group' 1912
8. Robert Delaunay: 'Light' 1912; 'Notes on the Construction of the Reality of Pure Painting' 1912
9. Erik Satie: 'The Musician's Day' 1913; 'Some Notes on Modern Music' 1919
10. Wyndham Lewis: From 'The Cubist Room' 1914
11. Karl Kraus: From 'In These Great Times' 1914
12. Richard Huelsenbeck: From 'Zurich 1916, as it really was' 1928
13. Guillaume Apollinaire: 'Art and the War: Concerning an Allied Exhibition' 1916; Programme for Parade, 18 May 1917
14. Antonio Gramsci: 'Marinetti the Revolutionary' 1916; 'Theatre and Cinema' 1921
15. Victor Shklovsky: From 'Art as Technique' 1917
16. John Reed: From Ten Days That Shook the World 1919
17. 'A Member of the Audience: Storming the Winter Palace' 1920
18. Georg Lukács: From The Theory of the Novel 1920
19. Leon Trotsky: From Literature and Revolution 1923
20. Alexandra Kollontai: From 'Make Way for the Winged Eros' 1923
21. Dziga Vertov: From 'A Kino-Eye Discussion' 1924
22. Luis Buñuel: 'Suburbs' 1923
23. Vsevolod Meyerhold: From 'The Reconstruction of the Theatre' 1929
24. Erwin Piscator: From 'Basic Principles of Sociological Drama' 1929

IIb: Manifestos

1. Futurism
1a. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909'; The Variety Theatre' 1913
1b. Ilya Zdanevich and Mikhail Larionov: 'Why We Paint Ourselves: A Futurist Manifesto' 1913
2. Mina Loy: 'Feminist Manifesto' 1914
3. Cubism: Guillaume Apollinaire: From The Cubist Painters 1913
4. Imagism: Preface to Some Imagist Poets 1915
5. Expressionism: Wassily Kandinsky: From 'The Problem of Form' 1912
6. Dada
6a. Tristan Tzara: From 'Dada Manifesto, 1918'; 'Note on Art' 1917; 'Note on Negro Art' 1917
6b. Kurt Shwitters: From Merz 1921; From 'Consistent Poetry' 1924; 'To All the Theatres of the World' 1926
6c. George Grosz with Wieland Herzfelde: From 'Art is in Danger'
7. Vorticism: From Blast 1914
8. Eccentrism: The Eccentric Manifesto
9. Constructivism
9a. Aleksei Gan: From Constructivism 1922
9b. László Moholy-Nagy: 'Constructivism and the Proletariat'
10. Bauhaus
10a. Walter Gropius: 'Manifesto of the Bauhaus, April 1919'
10b. Annelise Fleischmann: From 'Economic Living' 1924
10c. László Moholy-Nagy: 'The New Typography' 1923
10d. Oscar Schlemmer: Diary Extract 1927
11. Manifesto Issued by the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors, Mexico City, 1922
12 LEF Manifesto
13 Surrealism: André Breton: From the First Manifesto of Surrealism 1924
14.transition: Eugene Jolas: 'Suggestions for a New Magic' 1927; 'Proclamation' 1929
15. Anarchism: Alexander Berkman: From The ABC of Anarchism 1929

III. Modernists on the Modern

IIIa. The 1910s and 1920s: The making of Modernist traditions

1. (Margaret) Strom Jameson: From 'England's Nest of Singing Birds'
2. Ford Maddox Ford: From 'On Impressionism' 1914
3. Dora Marsden: From 'I Am.' 1915
4. Fernando Pessoa: From 'Notes on Sensation' 1916
5. John Dos Passos: 'Against American Literature' 1916
6. W. B. Yeats: From 'Anima Hominis' 1917
7. Amy Lowell: From Preface to Tendencies in Modernist Poetry 1917
8. William Carlos Williams: From Prologue to Kora in Hell 1918
9. May Sinclair: From a review of Pilgrimmage 1918
10. Edwin Muir: From 'What is Modern?' 1918
11. E. M. Forester: From 'The Poetry of C. P. Cavafy' 1919
12. Katherine Mansfield: From reviews for the Athenaeum 1919
13 Thomas Mann: From Diaries 1918, 1919, 1920
14. T. S. Eliot: From 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' 1919; From 'Ulysses, Order, and Myth' 1923
15. Ezra Pound: From 'A Retrospect' 1918: From a Preface to Rémy de Gourmont's The Natural Philosophy of Love 1926
16. H. D.: From 'Notes on Thought and Vision' 1919
17. Alfred Döblin: From 'Warsaw' 1922
18. Herman Hesse: 'Recent German Poetry'
19. Virginia Woolf: 'The Moment: Summer's Night' 1927: From 'Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown' 1924: From 'Modern Fiction' 1919
20. James Joyce: Letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 15 August 1925
21. Richard Adlington: From 'The Influence of Mr. James Joyce' 1921
22. Carl Jung: From 'Ulysses: ein Monolog' 1932
23. Frank Budgen: From James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses' 1934
24. D. H. Lawrence: Leter to A. W. Macleod, 2 June 1914: From letter to Edward Garnett, 5 June 1914: From preface to the American edition of New Poems 1929
25. Alain Locke: From the Introduction to The New Negro 1925
26. Langston Hughes: From 'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain' 1926
27. Gertrude Stein: From 'Composition as Explanation' 1926
28. Hugh MacDiarmid: From 'English Ascendency in British Literature' 1931
29 Marianne Moore: 'New Poetry Since 1912' 1926
30. Robert Graves and Laura (Riding) Jackson: From Modernist Poetry 1926
31. F. Scott Fitzgerald: From 'Echoes of he Jazz Age' 1931
32. Robert McAlmon: From Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930 1938
33. Vladimir Dixon: 'A Letter to James Joyce' 1929
34. Samuel Beckett: From 'Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Joyce' 1929: From Proust 1931

IIIb The 1930s: Modernist regroupings

1. Siegfried Kracauer: From 'The Mass Ornament' 1927
2. Max Horkheimer: From 'The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research' 1931
3. Bertolt Brecht: From 'The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre' 1930
4. Antonin Artaud: 'Theatre and Cruelty' 1933
5. Sigmund Freud: From 'The Dissection of the Phsychical Personality' 1933
6. Nathanael West: 'Some Notes on Violence' 1932: 'Some Notes on Miss L.' 1933
7. Laura (Riding) Jackson: From The Word 'Woman' 1934-35
8. Dorothy M. Richardson: Foreword to Pilgrimmage 1938
9. Cecil Day Lewis: From A Hope for Poetry 1934
10. T. S. Eliot: From The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism 1933
11. Ezra Pound: From 'Prefatio Aut Cimicium Tumulus' 1933
12. F. R. Leavis: From New Bearings in English Poetry 1932
13. W. H. Auden: Review of Leavis et al. 1933: From Introduction to The Poet's Tongue 1935
14. W. B. Yeats: From Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 1936
15. Michael Roberts: From Introduction to The Faber Book of Modern Verse 1936
16. Wallace Stevens: From 'The Irrational Element in Poetry' 1936
17. George Dangerfield: From The Strange Death of Liberal England 1935
18. Andrei Zhadanov: From speech at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers 1934
19. Herbert Read: From 'What is Revolutionary Art' 1935
20. Eric Gill: 'All Art Is Propaganda' 1935
21. Christina Stead: From 'The Writers Take Sides' 1935
22. Lewis Grassic Gibbon: 'Note', A Scots Quair 1932-34
23. James Barke: From 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' 1935-36
24. Neil M. Gunn: 'Scotland a Nation' 1935-36
25. William Phillips and Philip Rahv: From 'Recent Problems of Revolutionary Literature' 1935
26. John Dos Passos: 'The Writer as Technician' 1935
27. John Cornford: From 'Left?' 1933-34
28. Sergei Eisenstein: From 'A Dialectic Approach to Film Form' 1929
29. Storm Jameson: From 'Documents' 1937
30. Adolf Hitler: From speech inaugerating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art', Munich 1937
31. Walter Benjamin: From 'Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intellegentsia' 1929: From 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 1936
32. Theodor Adorno: From letter to Walter Benjamin, 18 March 1936: From 'On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening' 1938
33. Georg Lukács: From 'Realism in the Balance' 1938
34. Ernst Bloch: From The Principle of Hope 1938-47
35. David Alfaro Siqueiros: From 'Letter from teh Front Line in Spain' 1938
36. André Breton, Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera: 'Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art' 1938
37. Eugene Jolas et al.: From 'Inquiry into Spirit and Language of the Night' 1938
38. George Orwell: From 'Inside the Whale' 1933
39. Virginia Wolfe: From 'The Leaning Tower' 1940
40. Richard Wright: From 'How "Bigger" Was Born' 1940

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