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Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins. Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and For want of by Rites of Spring. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. `` Rites Of Spring `` By Modris Eksteins 921 Words | 4 Pages. Published in 1989, Modris Eksteins' book, "Rites of Spring" argues that World War I, with Germany specifically as a catalyst, is the turning point of modernism. Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and Rites of Spring The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age By Modris Eksteins Illustrated. 396 pages. A Peter Davison Book/Houghton Mifflin Company. $24.95. Rites of Spring The Truly Amazing War and also the Birth from the Modern Day By Modris Eksteins Highlighted. 396 pages. A Peter Davison Book/Houghton Mifflin Company. $24.95. In "Rites of Spring: The Truly Amazing War and also the Birth from the Modern Day," Modris Eksteins requires a dim look at modernism. Viking. 294 pp. $18.95. "This is a book about death and destruction," Modris Eksteins tells the reader in his preface to Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. For Eksteins, modern consciousness was born on the battlefields of World War I and those battlefields were, in Act I - Eksteins draws an extended parallel between the ballet Rites of Spring and the outbreak of the First World War. He also rejects the commonplace view of the Germans as backwards, barbaric Huns intent on extinguishing the cultural lights of Europe, and instead presents a more pan-European view of a society both decadent and innocent. Rites ot Spring and the birth ot modernism JOE Rites Of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins Toronto; Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989, 396 hat makes Rites or Spring a daring piece of cultural history are the Cre- ative ways in which Eksteins tries. though he is not always successful, to explore the It takes historian Modris Eksteins nearly the whole of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age to realize his thesis: "Art had become more important than history (290)." He writes these words during his analysis of Erich Maria Remarque's renowned novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Eksteins' Rites of Spring, on the other hand, it's the chronicle of a difficult birth, the birth of an epoch. What I have said doesn't mean that one book is better than the other. Instead it means that they are complementary works. Now well, in this vein, what you get in Rites of Spring is an elaborated but very natural picture of a crazy world. PDF | On Mar 1, 1990, Joseph Galbo and others published Review of Modris Eksteins Rites of Spring and the Birth of Modernism PDF | On Mar 1, 1990, Joseph Galbo and others published Review of Modris Eksteins Rites of Spring and the Birth of Modernism