Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of GeorgiaJed Rasula's scholarly work has largely been on modern art and literature, with seven books and two anthologies. He has also been involved in literary affairs, with three poetry collections, as editor of a poetry magazine, and serving on the editorial board of another. Before becoming a professor he worked in television and radio, as a graphic designer and bookseller.

History of Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism and Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory are companion volumes carving forking paths from early German Romanticism through Wagnerism to the proliferation of international avant-gardes and the global convulsions of jazz before following the ungrounding of these upheavals back to prehistoric precedents in cave painting, reading modernism as a "renaissance of the archaic." With the prodigious and perhaps unprecedented range and variety of materials these volumes convene across nine hundred pages, Rasula has demonstrated that it is indeed possible to develop a research practice and a prose style adequate to the sheer profusion of modernist precedent.

• Preface Introduction: Acrobatic Modernism, A Relentless Metabolism 1: The Ache of Modernism 2: Luminous Sores: The Pathic Receptacles of Modernism 3: Gathering Hay in a Thunderstorm 4: Make It New 5: Jazzbandism 6: Multiplied Man 7: The New Mythology 8: The Renaissance of the Archaic Afterword

Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of GeorgiaJed Rasula's scholarly work has largely been on modern art and literature, with seven books and two anthologies. He has also been involved in literary affairs, with three poetry collections, as editor of a poetry magazine, and serving on the editorial board of another. Before becoming a professor he worked in television and radio, as a graphic designer and bookseller.

History of Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism and Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory are companion volumes carving forking paths from early German Romanticism through Wagnerism to the proliferation of international avant-gardes and the global convulsions of jazz before following the ungrounding of these upheavals back to prehistoric precedents in cave painting, reading modernism as a "renaissance of the archaic." With the prodigious and perhaps unprecedented range and variety of materials these volumes convene across nine hundred pages, Rasula has demonstrated that it is indeed possible to develop a research practice and a prose style adequate to the sheer profusion of modernist precedent.

• Preface Introduction: Acrobatic Modernism, A Relentless Metabolism 1: The Ache of Modernism 2: Luminous Sores: The Pathic Receptacles of Modernism 3: Gathering Hay in a Thunderstorm 4: Make It New 5: Jazzbandism 6: Multiplied Man 7: The New Mythology 8: The Renaissance of the Archaic Afterword

Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of GeorgiaJed Rasula's scholarly work has largely been on modern art and literature, with seven books and two anthologies. He has also been involved in literary affairs, with three poetry collections, as editor of a poetry magazine, and serving on the editorial board of another. Before becoming a professor he worked in television and radio, as a graphic designer and bookseller.

History of Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism and Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory are companion volumes carving forking paths from early German Romanticism through Wagnerism to the proliferation of international avant-gardes and the global convulsions of jazz before following the ungrounding of these upheavals back to prehistoric precedents in cave painting, reading modernism as a "renaissance of the archaic." With the prodigious and perhaps unprecedented range and variety of materials these volumes convene across nine hundred pages, Rasula has demonstrated that it is indeed possible to develop a research practice and a prose style adequate to the sheer profusion of modernist precedent.

• Preface Introduction: Acrobatic Modernism, A Relentless Metabolism 1: The Ache of Modernism 2: Luminous Sores: The Pathic Receptacles of Modernism 3: Gathering Hay in a Thunderstorm 4: Make It New 5: Jazzbandism 6: Multiplied Man 7: The New Mythology 8: The Renaissance of the Archaic Afterword