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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (2 volumes).
Language:	English
Series:	A comparative history of literatures in European languages = Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes, 0238-0668 ; v. 21 Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; v. 21.
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Art) Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Art) Modernism (Literature) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11171550

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Other authors / contributors:	Ástráður Eysteinsson. Liska, Vivian, 1956-
ISBN:	9789027292049 9027292043
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! 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.
Other form:	Print version: Modernism. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2007 9789027234544 902723454X

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Preface
2. Introduction: Approaching Modernism
3. 1. De-limiting Modernism
4. Tracing the Modernist Paradigm
5. Cultural Parataxis and Transnational Landscapes of Reading
6. Modernism at Large
7. Modernist Innovations
8. 2. Reassessments
9. Literary Modernism, Critical Theory and the Politics of Irony
10. A\Map of All Possible Paths
11. Modernism, Narrativity and Bakhtinian Theory
12. The\Subject, the Beautiful and the Sublime
13. 3. Tradition, Avant-Garde, Postmodernism
14. Modernism and Tradition
15. Myths of Rupture
16. The\Untimeliness of German Expressionism
17. Outside In/Inside Out
18. Modernism at the Crossroads
19. Thoroughly Modern Modernism
20. 4. Time and Space
21. Still Life
22. Living with Fragments
23. Figurations of Childhood in Modernist Texts
24. Modernism and Trauma
25. 5. Mind and Body
26. Modernism, Consciousness, Poetics of Process
27. Configurations of Self
28. The\Face of Modernity
29. 6. Technology and Science
30. Bookkeeping in the Modernist Novel
31. Modernism and Science
32. Modernism, Empirical Psychology and the Creative Imagination
33. Modernism and the Technologies of Insight
34. From Linear to Acoustic Space
35. 7. Literature and the Other Arts
36. The\New Critical Demotion of the Visual in Modernism
37. An\End to Dwelling
38. Narrative Beginnings
39. (Re-)Dressing French Modernism
40. The\Mother of Us All
41. Theatrical Modernism
42. 8. Social and Political Parameters
43. Fascist Modernism
44. A\Center That Can Hold
45. Racial Politics, Modernist Poetics
46. Modernism and Ecological Criticism
47. 9. Cultural Conjunctions
48. Modernity, Postmodernity and Popular Culture in Joyce and Eliot
49. "Determined and Bigoted Feminists"
50. Latent Icons
51. Primitive Art in Modernism
52. 10. Routes and Encounters
53. The\Untranslatability of Modernism
54. Haiku as a Western Genre
55. Modernist Africa as an Imaginary Foil
56. Exile and Literary Modernism
57. 11. Locations: Case Studies
58. Brazilian Modernism
59. Belated Arrivals
60. Modernisme in Catalonia
61. French Literary Modernism
62. The\Spanish American Modernismo
63. Borders of Modernism in the Nordic World
64. Central and Eastern European Symbolist Literature and Its Projects
65. Russian Modernism
66. In the Shadow of Byzantium
67. Approaching Spanish Modernism
68. The\Spanish-American Novel and European Modernism
69. Modernism(s) in Dutch Literature
70. Greek Modernism and Inner-Oriented Art
71. Afterword
72. Contributors
73. Index

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