The contemporaneity of modernism : literature, media, culture / edited by Michael D'Arcy and Mathias Nilges.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

D'Arcy, Michael, 1966- editor.

Nilges, Mathias, editor.

Series:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 61.

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Modernism (Literature).

Postmodernism.

Popular culture.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

xii, 235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: the contemporaneity of modernism / Michael D'Arcy and Mathias Nilges

Part I. Modernism's temporality

Abstract in concrete: brutalism and modernist half-life / C.D. Blanton

Our last September: climate change in modernist time / Douglas Mao

Time, modernism, and the contemporaneity of realism / David Cunningham

Part II. Modernism's literary afterlives

Relative autonomy: Pierre Bourdieu and modernism / Andrew Goldstone

Impersonality and institutional critique / Sarah Brouillette

Impressionism after film / Jesse Matz

Involutions of the word: Lorrie Moore and Jonathan Letham / Joseph Brooker

Part III. Modernism's global economies

The Fidget Manifesto: fast capital, the gesture, and growth in modernist culture / Enda Duffy

"The highways of empire": geopolitics, modernism, and committed reading / Thomas S. Davis

"La furia de la materia": on the non-contemporaneity of modernism in Latin America / Eugenio Di Stefano and Emilio Sauri

Part IV. Modernism's media

To burn or not to burn: modernism's photographic exposures / Michael D'Arcy

The plain viewer be damned: or, modernism on TV / Nicholas Brown

Modernist binge-watching / Michaela Bronstein

Modernist poetics after Twitter, Inc. / Lisa Siraganian

Afterword / David James.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138917033

1138917036

OCLC:

934585531