A handbook of modernism studies / edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell critical theory handbooks.

Wiley-Blackwell critical theory handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 463 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature. Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection Explores

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Hard and Soft Modernism: Politics as ""Theory''; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Streams Beyond Consciousness: Stylistic Immediacy in the Modernist Novel; Stylistic Treatments of Individual Subjectivity by Women Writers; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Modernisms High and Low; Ich bin schon da; Why, the fellow writes for money; King Ludwig II amusing himself in the cave of the Venusberg; What after all is left to do but scream; The devil speaks Adorno's mind; Wagner the spider; Schonberg the builder

Kafka the run of the mill insurance company employee He over whom Kafka's wheels have passed; Luk ́acs of the Postmodern . . .; Kafka's axe; Note; References; Chapter 4 Kafka, Modernism, and Literary Theory; Worrying about Modernism; Broadening Modernism; Coda: Literature in Theory; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Race: Tradition and Archive in the Harlem Renaissance; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Empire, Imperialism, and Modernism; Literary Experts, Imperial Networks; Imperial Places, Novelistic Settings; Global Culture, Global Experts; Note; References; Further Reading

Chapter 7 Marxist Modernisms: From Jameson to Benjamin References; Further Reading; Chapter 8 Reactionary Modernism; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9 Transnationalism at the Departure Gate; Notes; References; Chapter 10 From Ritual to the Archaic in Modernism: Frazer, Harrison, Freud, and the Persistence of Myth; James George Frazer and the Reinvention of the Sacred; Jane Ellen Harrison's ''Daimonic'' Imagination; Oedipus, Freud, and the Therapist as Sooth-Sayer; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 11 Modernism, Orientalism, and East Asia; Modernist Orientalisms; Modernities

Asian modernisms Asian Futures for Modernist Studies?; References; Further Reading; Chapter 12 Translation Studies and Modernism; Notes; References; Chapter 13 Modernism, Mind, and Manuscripts; The So-Called ''Inward Turn''; The Manuscript as ''Environmental Vehicle''; Non-Epiphanies; Case study; (De)composition, Bricolage, and Worldmaking; References; Chapter 14 Modernism and Visual Culture; References; Chapter 15 More Kicks than Pricks: Modernist Body-Parts; Podiatric Modernism; Walking Wild; Notes; References; Chapter 16 Materialities of Modernism: Objects, Matter, Things; References

Chapter 17 Glamour's Silhouette: Fashion, Fashun, and Modernism Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 18 Otherness and Singularity: Ethical Modernism; The Other; Care of the Self; Moral Goods; The Event; Conclusion; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 19 Phenomenology and Affect: Modernist Sulking; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 20 Queer Modernism; The Grammars of Queer Modernism I: Sexology; The Grammars of Queer Modernism II: Decadence; The Grammars of Queer Modernism III: The Wilde and Hall Trials; General Characteristics of Queer Modernism; Notes; References

Chapter 21 Cultural Capital and the Revolutions of Literary Modernity, from Bourdieu to Casanova

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-118-48865-2

1-118-48864-4

1-118-48863-6

1-118-48867-9

1-299-44880-1

1-118-48866-0

9781118488669