Modernism
Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. xi–xii
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Introduction: Approaching ModernismAstradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska | pp. 1–8
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1. De-limiting Modernism
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Tracing the Modernist Paradigm: Terminologies of ModernismEdward Mozejko | pp. 11–33
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Cultural Parataxis and Transnational Landscapes of Reading: Toward a Locational Modernist StudiesSusan Stanford Friedman | pp. 35–52
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Modernism at LargeAndreas Huyssen | pp. 53–66
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Modernist Innovations: A Legacy of the Constructed ReaderCharles Altieri | pp. 67–86
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2. Reassessments
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Literary Modernism, Critical Theory and the Politics of IronyGunther Martens | pp. 89–105
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A Map of All Possible Paths: Modernism after MarxismSascha Bru | pp. 107–124
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Modernism, Narrativity and Bakhtinian TheoryAnker Gemzøe | pp. 125–141
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The Subject, the Beautiful and the Sublime: Adorno and Lyotard between Modernism and PostmodernismPeter V. Zima | pp. 143–153
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3. Tradition, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism
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Modernism and TraditionAnne Fernald | pp. 157–171
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Myths of Rupture: The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-GardeBenedikt Hjartarson | pp. 173–194
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The Untimeliness of German ExpressionismVivian Liska | pp. 195–206
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Outside In/Inside Out: Roaming the Frontiers of ModernismSjef Houppermans | pp. 207–218
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Modernism at the Crossroads: Types of NegativityBarrett Watten | pp. 219–232
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Thoroughly Modern Modernism: Modernism and its PostmodernismsSam Slote | pp. 233–249
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4. Time and Space
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Still Life: The Experience of Space in Modernist ProseFrederik Tygstrup | pp. 253–269
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Living with Fragments: World Making in Modernist City LiteratureBart Keunen | pp. 271–290
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Figurations of Childhood in Modernist TextsKatrien Vloeberghs | pp. 291–305
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Modernism and TraumaUlrich Baer | pp. 307–318
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5. Mind and Body
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Modernism, Consciousness, Poetics of ProcessDirk Van Hulle | pp. 321–337
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Configurations of Self: Modernism and DistractionErnst van Alphen | pp. 339–346
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The Face of ModernityHolger A. Pausch | pp. 347–363
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6. Technology and Science
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Bookkeeping in the Modernist NovelStanley Corngold | pp. 367–381
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Modernism and ScienceLinda Dalrymple Henderson | pp. 383–403
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Modernism, Empirical Psychology and the Creative ImaginationPatricia Rae | pp. 405–418
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Modernism and the Technologies of InsightJulian Nelson | pp. 419–430
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From Linear to Acoustic Space: New Media Environments and New Modernist FormsElena Lamberti | pp. 431–448
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7. Literature and the Other Arts
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The New Critical Demotion of the Visual in ModernismGiovanni Cianci | pp. 451–467
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An End to Dwelling: Reflections on Modern Literature and ArchitectureDavid Spurr | pp. 469–486
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Narrative Beginnings: Modernist Literature and the Medium of FilmJakob Lothe | pp. 487–500
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(Re-)Dressing French Modernism: Décor, Costume, and the Decorative in an Interarts PerspectiveBridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy | pp. 501–512
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The Mother of Us All: Modernism, Literature and MusicBrad Bucknell | pp. 513–529
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Theatrical Modernism: A ProblematicGraham Ley | pp. 531–544
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8. Social and Political Parameters
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Fascist ModernismJobst Welge | pp. 547–559
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A Center That Can Hold: The Figure of Empire in Portuguese and Austrian ModernismAntónio Sousa Ribeiro | pp. 561–572
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Racial Politics, Modernist PoeticsUrmila Seshagiri | pp. 573–589
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Modernism and Ecological CriticismScott Bryson | pp. 591–604
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9. Cultural Conjunctions
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Modernity, Postmodernity and Popular Culture in Joyce and EliotR. Brandon Kershner | pp. 607–617
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“Determined and Bigoted Feminists”: Women, Magazine and Popular ModernismElisabeth Majerus | pp. 619–636
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Latent Icons: Compensatory Symbols of the Sacred in Modernist Literature and PaintingWendy B. Faris and Steven Walker | pp. 637–650
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Primitive Art in Modernism: The Ambivalence of AppropriationVita Fortunati and Zelda Franceschi | pp. 651–672
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10. Routes and Encounters
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The Untranslatability of ModernismM. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera | pp. 675–692
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Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow-Traveler of ModernismJan Walsh Hokenson | pp. 693–714
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Modernist Africa as an Imaginary Foil: From Pierre Loti’s Implied Ethnologist to the Heterotopian ZoneKai Mikkonen | pp. 715–733
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Exile and Literary ModernismAnders Olsson | pp. 735–754
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11. Locations: Case Studies
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Brazilian ModernismEduardo De Faria Coutinho | pp. 759–768
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Belated Arrivals: Gender, Colonialism and Modernism in AustraliaTanya Dalziell | pp. 769–780
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Modernisme in CataloniaBrad Epps | pp. 781–800
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French Literary ModernismKimberley Healey | pp. 801–816
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The Spanish American ModernismoCathy L. Jrade | pp. 817–830
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Borders of Modernism in the Nordic WorldAstradur Eysteinsson, Mats Jansson, H.K. Riikonen, Steen Klitgård Povlsen, Jakob Lothe, Bjørn Thysdal and Turið Sigurðardóttir | pp. 831–877
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Central and Eastern European Symbolist Literature and Its ProjectsPéter Krasztev | pp. 879–889
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Russian ModernismEdward Mozejko | pp. 891–909
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In the Shadow of Byzantium: Modernism in Italian LiteratureLuca Somigli | pp. 911–929
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Approaching Spanish Modernism: Tradition and the “New Man”C. Christopher Soufas | pp. 931–945
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The Spanish-American Novel and European ModernismMaarten van Delden | pp. 947–965
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Modernism(s) in Dutch LiteratureHubert F. van den Berg and Gillis J. Dorleijn | pp. 967–990
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Greek Modernism and Inner-Oriented ArtEvi Voyiatzaki | pp. 991–1007
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AfterwordAstradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska | pp. 1009–1012
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Contributors | pp. 1013–1024
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Index | pp. 1025–1043
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